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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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Today, barnstorming takes the form of entertainment leagues, exemplified by the wildly popular Savannah Bananas play.

— Sam Blum, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
Working within the procedural heist tradition exemplified by Rififi, Melville pushes the form even further to create a truly immersive crime thriller unlike almost any before or after it.

— Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Sep. 2026

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But for Hatfield, the months-long legal battle illustrated the importance of Missouri’s referendum process, a mechanism for direct democracy that allows citizens to collect signatures and challenge state laws.

— Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2026
The idea might seem clever, as if the artist has cannily illustrated how the lovey-dovey notion of romance and family is hokey, brain-dead, false.

— Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 11 Sep. 2026

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Still, Yao was optimistic that embodied AI would follow the same scaling law that transformed large language models.

— Angelica Ang, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2026
Manchester City’s back-to-the-walls defensive display in their 1-0 victory in the Manchester derby on Sunday presented the former, while Manchester United’s inability to create chances against 10 men embodied the latter.

— Ahmed Walid, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026

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