chimerical
Example Sentences
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Since then it has become clear that general-purpose robots that look and act like humans are chimerical.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2026
Sharply vivid rather than suggestively chimerical, the scenes and dances had a trim, finely honed character.
From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2024
Which is to say, this was a precious, anticipated, frankly anxious affair — the materialization of a beloved and mercurial performer moving from the chimerical to the literal.
From New York Times • Apr. 26, 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
Vocabulary lists containing chimerical
Frankenstein
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