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Reske appears uninterested in fetishizing or recreating his past, and that’s probably for the best.—David Glickman, Pitchfork, 27 Mar. 2026 Indeed, in many ways, West’s performatively anti-white, unpatriotic, and cosmopolitan version of polyamory is the blue-state mirror image of tradwifery, which, in its various forms, can fetishize whiteness, nostalgic Americana, and (often Christian) nationalism.—Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2026 To fetishize the martial spirit, however, would miss the broader effort feeding it.—Liam Denning, Bloomberg, 12 Mar. 2026 Conductors often fetishize the opening bars of this opera, their squirmy alternation of silence and piquant dissonance.—Justin Davidson, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for fetishize