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fetishized

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past tense of fetishize

as in objectified

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We were objectified by most of our producers.

— Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
Appropriation of surplus labor, objectified in commodities, drove the system.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025

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However, what separates Snapchat from its competitors, Sunday said, are its features that lead to compulsive use, like a daily streak symbolized with a flame.

— Lauren Linder, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026
The event on Thursday also symbolized the lengths Republicans took to unseat Cleaver, Kansas City’s first Black mayor and one of Missouri’s most experienced lawmakers.

— Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 21 Aug. 2026

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Traditional business moats are eroding, exemplified by Chegg's collapse, as the market prices certainty into an inherently uncertain technology, causing unprecedented volatility and layoffs.

— Jemma Green, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Those scares are best exemplified by the film’s most inventive setpiece, where Gemma gets lost in an endless pillow fort filled with baddies around every corner.

— William Earl, Variety, 21 Aug. 2026

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The congressman’s hour-and-a-half drive to Sedalia illustrated the distance of the sweeping 5th Congressional District, which stretches east from Troost Avenue to rural mid-Missouri.

— Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 21 Aug. 2026
Again, the psychiatrist said Clancy’s reaction illustrated an understanding her actions were wrong.

— Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026

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In 2021, Kristen Stewart embodied Diana in Pablo Larraín’s touching biopic, Spencer.

— Giovana Gelhoren, InStyle, 23 Aug. 2026
Urushadze presents a sympathetic portrait of Niaz, a man who once embodied a certain type of swaggering masculinity but now seems adrift in the modern world.

— Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 21 Aug. 2026

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