fetishize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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We’ve been taught to fetishize our suffering and villainize our joy — that working toward a long-term goal should feel like work.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 27, 2026
On this week’s Amicus podcast, he explained to Dahlia Lithwick that the inclination to fetishize that which can be justified legally has a way of opening the door to atrocities that cannot be tolerated.
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2026
Instead, they fetishize a sanitized version of 19th-century European culture.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2023
Another theme Mylod and Tobman agreed upon was cult-like reverence, riffing on a kind of fanatical devotion held by and for chefs within a kitchen hierarchy and by the diners who fetishize them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2022
We fetishize the tax code and its deductions and credits and refunds.
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2022
The company has historically fetishized refinement, isolation and effortlessness—summed up in the company’s favorite word, “waftability.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026
Kris King, an autistic graduate of Harvard University's History of Science: Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies, explained to Salon that being an autistic woman is problematic in another way — autism can be fetishized.
From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2024
Movies and TV shows have fetishized close friendship to the point that the real, often fraught rhythms of such relationships have been lost.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2024
“Cowboy Bebop” was a cult-favorite Japanese animated series that fetishized cool American jazz and film noir and Hollywood westerns, and in 2021 Netflix returned the cultural homage by making an American live-action adaptation.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2023
His issue with nonviolence comes when it is fetishized to the exclusion of other methods; a problem that he sees in the current climate movement.
From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2023
So some of us really need to stop fetishizing water bottles and focus on how often we are drinking out of them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2024
Salon spoke to Raphael about how we got to this place of "fetishizing health," CBD leggings, and of course, Gwyneth Paltrow and Goop.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2022
No one can accuse the bill’s authors of fetishizing quality, though: The Bolt is under recall, due to its batteries’ dangerous tendency to catch fire.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2021
In the process, as the greatest wines, the grand crus, reached stratospheric prices, she fought against fetishizing them, promoting instead the region’s more earthbound, humble bottles to a world that looked only to the skies.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2021
At any rate, this interest of yours seems less about fetishizing a race than carrying a torch.
From Slate ● Aug. 23, 2021
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