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- noun Plural form of
pipedream .
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Yet you both insist on listening to either pie-in-the-sky pipedreams or blatant lies and most of you have'nt done any research to back your arguments. instead of spewing hate, try and com off of your far left and far right soap boxes and come to a compromise in the middle!
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And, ps. the US is in bankruptcy stage now, how are we to pay for even more of his pipedreams?
Republicans raising cash to counter-program ABC Obama special 2009
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I mean, I think these are pipedreams that many people would love to have and political junkies love to talk about such fights, but ultimately, I can't imagine that happening.
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Once the Air Force guys prove that hypersonics can be done with flights that last minutes (like X-51), not seconds (like X-43), then the hope is that the floodgates will open and scramjets won't be seen as just engineer's pipedreams by the guys who hold the purse strings.
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Even California, that famous incubator of pipedreams, is having second thoughts.
Runaway Trains 2011
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All of them continue to call for investment into "clean coal" and "carbon sequestration," greenwashed catchphrases that are pipedreams of industry hacks.
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The New Craft is a striking exposition and a strong refutation of Recorded Future-like pipedreams.
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The New Craft is a striking exposition and a strong refutation of Recorded Future-like pipedreams.
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The African delegation came to Copenhagen with pipedreams of billions of dollars in carbon blood money.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Copenhagen: The Mouse that Roared at the Conference 2009
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Republicans don't get that that's not funny, that it's stereo-typing every black person's accomplishments or hopes of accomplishment as the pipedreams of uppity (insert 'N' word here.)
Republicans Popping Up To Defend Saltsman For "Magic Negro" CD 2009
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