chimerical

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Projections of economic gains from major sporting events are typically optimistic, euphoric, chimerical or conjectural.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2025

Sharply vivid rather than suggestively chimerical, the scenes and dances had a trim, finely honed character.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2024

It is only natural, then, that in an age of extreme guilt, when in very tangible ways we feel as if we have failed the Earth itself, the chimerical enemy should be all too human.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2023

A film museum had been a seemingly chimerical dream within the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences virtually since its founding in 1927.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2021

The rather chimerical notion of a nuclear bomb without radioactive side effects had emerged in late 1954 and had been embraced by Livermore, where it fit nicely with the lab’s brief to explore new ideas.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik