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
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 was kind of a chimera, rather than a knowable quantity — intellectual, bright and a little bit mysterious in some way that I can’t quite articulate,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2024
“We used the spring snare to snag that chimera last month. I don’t really like repeating ourselves. Makes us look less innovative than—” He stopped himself.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
Vocabulary lists containing chimera
The Lightning Thief
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Reading: Literature - Mythology - Introductory
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