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
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
The program, called “CBS Mornings Plus,” is a pet project of Wendy McMahon, chief executive of CBS News and Stations and CBS Media Ventures.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2024
Wilkins’s pet project at King’s was solving the three-dimensional structure of DNA.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
