pet project
Example Sentences
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Questions were also raised about his abilities when his pet project e-Samsung collapsed in the dotcom bust.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 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
Maya, his second wife, watches as he gambles his reputation to work on the pet project — time travel — of an eccentric billionaire.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2025
The museum was the pet project of Prince Albert, consort to Queen Victoria, who had seen firsthand that British manufactured goods were not always top of the class.
From New York Times • May 13, 2024
Wilkins’s pet project at King’s was solving the three-dimensional structure of DNA.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
