will-o'-the-wisp

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Noun
  • While Manchester United’s stadium development is still a pipe dream, in need of financing and planning permission, their new stadium is a tangible reality already.
    Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 21 Mar. 2025
  • At this point, a 90-win season looks like a pipe dream.
    Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • But critics claim PBMs don’t always find the best deals, and the savings are often a mirage.
    Julia Manchester, The Hill, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Gurriel will have to earn his keep by showing in April’s real games that the exhibitions of March were not a mirage.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Several sources say ignis fatuus, a spark of swamp gas, is the likely cause of the strange light.
    Fox News, Fox News, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The story also helped explain ignis fatuus, a natural phenomenon that occurs in marshlands and bogs—such as those in Ireland’s countryside—producing flickering lights as gases from decomposing organic matter combust.
    National Geographic, National Geographic, 27 Oct. 2020
Noun
  • An oppressively frequent voiceover tips us off to the roiling thoughts within, which swing between daydreams of an earlier cunnilingus-loving boyfriend and pleas toward Steve to touch her again.
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Where Babygirl explores the power dynamics and kink potential of an age difference, and The Idea of You leans on the age gap as a kind of escapist daydream, Bridget Jones offers an Everywoman’s version.
    Allison P. Davis, Vulture, 6 Feb. 2025
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