chimera
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Yet the idea that a Netflix-WBD merger would extinguish video competition is a chimera.
From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026
Also known as a spookfish or chimera, ghost sharks are closely related to sharks and rays.
From BBC • Sep. 24, 2024
The fact is that the subcommittee has wasted nearly a year and a half chasing a chimera.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2024
Freud, who catalyzed the study of dreams with his foundational 1899 treatise, would have discounted this as a mere chimera of the wishful unconscious.
From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2024
She read about Mount Olympus and creatures like the chimera and the phoenix, and then read the story of Prometheus.
From "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick
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