pipe dream
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Synonyms for pipe dream
Synonyms
chimera, conceit, daydream, delusion, dream, fancy, fantasy (also phantasy), figment, hallucination, illusion, nonentity, phantasm (also fantasm), unreality, vision
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Those apartments are pipe dreams; London landlords don’t rent to refugees. — Dina Nayeri, Longreads, "When Your Social Worker Thinks You’re Ungrateful," 29 Aug. 2019 Sequencing the entire range of Earth’s biodiversity is not a pipe dream anymore. — Eugene Koonin, Quartz, "What will we do once we’ve sequenced all the genomes?," 9 Aug. 2019 Even given their recent surge, winning the AL West is likely a pipe dream. — Michael Shapiro, SI.com, "Ranking the Top Trade Destinations for Madison Bumgarner," 23 July 2019 For all the heated discussion about internationalizing China’s currency, a real role for the yuan in global finance remains a pipe dream. — Mike Bird, WSJ, "Trump’s Most Powerful Weapon in the U.S.-China Trade Fight," 27 June 2019 Driving home the point, Biden has spent much of the week targeting Sanders, making the case that Medicare for All is both a pipe dream and, apparently, an affront to Barack Obama’s legacy. — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, "Biden’s Pitch to Voters: Dream Small," 19 July 2019 Asked whether this is just a pipe dream, Phillips indicated the company has already started designing the park and water features. — Jen Fifield, azcentral, "Waterfront development in West Valley? Land owner says it's coming," 29 June 2019 The most common criticisms— a reflexive, sometimes paranoid concern over the U.N.’s encroachments on American sovereignty, or a smug dismissal of cooperation between states as a utopian pipe dream—are easy to rebut. — Martin Peretz, WSJ, "Let’s Get the U.N. Out of the U.S.," 28 Sep. 2018 Guys like Elliott, Clarke, Graeme McDowell and Rory McIlroy know how long and unlikely the journey to Thursday has been, just how distant a pipe dream a Portrush Open was. — Eamon Lynch, azcentral, "Open Championship at Portrush may be the only thing Northern Ireland can agree on," 15 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'pipe dream.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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