will-o'-the-wisp

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Noun
  • If brands can’t execute the fundamentals and instead create friction, asking them to change their instinctive shopping behaviors will be a pipe dream.
    Rytis Lauris, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
  • In other words, sustainability isn’t just a pipe dream here.
    Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • Future systems will generate endless mirages to trick the attackers down endless rabbit holes, exhausting their desire to succeed.
    Carlo Tortora Brayda, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
  • The sibling suggested that Kaufmann’s involvement in the film world was not a complete mirage.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • Several sources say ignis fatuus, a spark of swamp gas, is the likely cause of the strange light.
    Fox News, Fox News, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The story also helped explain ignis fatuus, a natural phenomenon that occurs in marshlands and bogs—such as those in Ireland’s countryside—producing flickering lights as gases from decomposing organic matter combust.
    National Geographic, National Geographic, 27 Oct. 2020
Noun
  • From $635 per night. La Réserve feels a bit like a daydream manifested.
    Madeline Weinfield, Architectural Digest, 3 June 2025
  • Zooey Deschanel is living in a Screen Actors Guild Awards daydream.
    Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 6 May 2025
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