pet project
Example Sentences
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A pet project of architect Frank Gehry, a smaller concert hall to complement his legendary Walt Disney Concert Hall, is taking shape in downtown Los Angeles for an opening next September.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
They’re people with enough money to buy a company outright just because they want a pet project.
From Salon ● May 6, 2026
The trail of damage from Patterson’s pet project includes money fights, family estrangement and bitter fallouts as friends turned on each other amid efforts to debunk or defend the footage over the years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
The Mayan Train is a pet project of López Obrador to build a tourist train around the Yucatan peninsula.
From Seattle Times ● May 27, 2024
That is one pet project of the Reverend’s: getting other Baptists to swallow the Apocrypha.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
