chimera

Example Sentences

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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

Metcalfe’s pursuit of revelation in a single lost poem is magical thinking, a relentless grasping for a chimera.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2025

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

As I groped out the door, and knocked at it hesitatingly, I felt that last idea to be a mere chimera.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë