pet project
Example Sentences
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Our club should not be guinea pigs for their pet project.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
They’re people with enough money to buy a company outright just because they want a pet project.
From Salon ● May 6, 2026
In the months that followed, Esquivias’ pet project grew into a series of what she called “reading picnics.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
These are the new version of high scores, in a multibillion-dollar industry that started with one student’s pet project.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
Wilkins’s pet project at King’s was solving the three-dimensional structure of DNA.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
