as in dream
a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality
opening our own restaurant has long been a pipe dream
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Recent Examples of pipe dream
These all may sound like a pipe dream, but our moment requires large-scale change.
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Dan Perry, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
Those numbers, though, may be a pipe dream for many people.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 23 Nov. 2024
Working for your pipe dreams in unconventional ways might spare you the need to open your wallet.
—Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 22 Nov. 2024
While a pipe dream for some, a group called College Sports Tomorrow unveiled its idea to reshape the college football landscape.
—Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2024
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Dan Perry, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
Those numbers, though, may be a pipe dream for many people.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 23 Nov. 2024
Working for your pipe dreams in unconventional ways might spare you the need to open your wallet.
—Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 22 Nov. 2024
While a pipe dream for some, a group called College Sports Tomorrow unveiled its idea to reshape the college football landscape.
—Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pipe dream
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Mercurial, vengeful and fixated on forming a safe space for Mormons, Brigham Young stops at nothing to see his dream realized.Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 9 Jan. 2025
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Fall asleep and dream about being slowly forced, as if by some mechanized peristalsis, through the digestive tract of a huge synthetic worm that then deposits me into a lightless industrial kitchen.Jay Katsir, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2025
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With an incoming administration likely to stall or roll back green initiatives, now was the time to double down on renewable solutions, not to hedge bets on fossil fuel stopgaps that offer, at best, an illusion of progress.Andrew Leahey, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
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There will be no room for illusions with the influence of taskmaster Saturn, so focus on your accountability.Valerie Mesa, People.com, 10 Jan. 2025
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Its juicy cheeseburgers and sweet, sticky Hershey's brand milkshakes and sundaes were the stuff of daydreams.Catherine Jessee, Southern Living, 22 Dec. 2024
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These are features that California daydreams are made of, and this emergent scene is luring visitors to an outpost 70 miles southeast of downtown San Diego.Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024
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Backlist sales soared, especially with romance and fantasy authors like Colleen Hoover and Sarah J. Maas.Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2025
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Opening outside of the top 10 at the domestic weekend box office is the Robbie Williams fantasy music biopic Different Man, which opened in 1,291 theaters nationwide.Tim Lammers, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
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California Wildfire Live Updates: Strong Winds Expected Today—Death Toll Reaches 16 Strategic vision is key to Day’s approach.Cheryl Robinson, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
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Within a year, hardly a... Clarence Page: Jimmy Carter’s funeral brought a rare and much-needed vision of peace Edward Keegan: Has Donald Trump given up his interest in architecture?Armando L. Sanchez, Chicago Tribune, 12 Jan. 2025
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