dream team

American

a number of persons of the highest ability associated in some joint action.

a dream team that should easily win the Olympics; a dream team of lawyers.

dream team British

noun

informal a group of people regarded as having the prefect combination of talents

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Etymology

Origin of dream team

1935–40

Example Sentences

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With diGenova, the man who created the case’s very origin story, they have their dream team in place.

From Salon • Apr. 21, 2026

Eugenio Suarez drove in the winning run in the top of the ninth inning to seal the historic victory in Miami over a star-studded American line-up hyped as a baseball "dream team".

From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026

And even though the event is brand new, Shiffrin and Johnson are already its dream team.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026

"I believe it's worth taking the time to assemble a dream team in order to generate science that can be appreciated by the general public," Sereno said.

From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 2025

Like Fermi, much of Oppenheimer’s scientific dream team was European, many of them Jews who had escaped from Hitler.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin

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