pet project
Example Sentences
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Somewhere along the way, the biggest producer in television caught wind of Lasser’s chops and wanted her for his pet project, a parody of sudsy daytime dramas called “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 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
It's a pet project for Prime Minister Mark Brown, who believes it will reshape this country of 15 volcanic islands in the southern Pacific.
From BBC • Dec. 9, 2024
Wilkins’s pet project at King’s was solving the three-dimensional structure of DNA.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
