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His plan for starting his own business was just a pipe dream.
opening our own restaurant has long been a pipe dream
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The big hope — that somehow an ETF of private equity investments could be created — remains, for the moment, a pipe dream, for the simple reason that buying the underlying private equity assets and managing them in an ETF wrapper is exceedingly difficult.
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Bob Pisani, CNBC, 15 July 2024
In other corners of the world, that may be only a pipe dream.
—David McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2024
Listen to this article Loading your audio article LOS ANGELES — When Caleb Williams was coming out of middle school, just a DMV kid with a quarterback pipe dream and a love for Stanford, his father Carl planned a vacation for them to California to drive around some college campuses.
—Luca Evans, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2024
These success stories provide hope to those contemplating hair transplant by demonstrating that getting a thicker head of hair is a genuine, attainable goal rather than merely a pipe dream.
—Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2024
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Bob Pisani, CNBC, 15 July 2024
In other corners of the world, that may be only a pipe dream.
—David McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2024
Listen to this article Loading your audio article LOS ANGELES — When Caleb Williams was coming out of middle school, just a DMV kid with a quarterback pipe dream and a love for Stanford, his father Carl planned a vacation for them to California to drive around some college campuses.
—Luca Evans, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2024
These success stories provide hope to those contemplating hair transplant by demonstrating that getting a thicker head of hair is a genuine, attainable goal rather than merely a pipe dream.
—Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2024
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“Pipe dream.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pipe%20dream. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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