Example Sentences

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Abareshi’s work comments on the fetishization and scrutiny of disabled bodies and pushes viewers to reflect on their discomfort and pleasure.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2025

As the fashion commentator Simon Doonan argues in the film, International Male documented — and reinvented — gay and straight men’s shared fetishization of masculinity.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2023

With this opening sentence, historian Coll Thrush begins his study of the city and its conflicting relationship with Indigenous communities, which has lurched between dependence, hostility, fetishization and erasure.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 16, 2022

Is there any chance this might have made him rethink his lifelong fetishization of bipartisanship?

From Slate • Jun. 24, 2022

He added, "There is no deeper psychological purpose in this. It is a sort of fetishization of others' suffering."

From Salon • Feb. 20, 2022