chimera

Yet the idea that a Netflix-WBD merger would extinguish video competition is a chimera.

From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026

And like this suggestion, the chimera named Barbenheimer was born on the Internet.

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 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

The supposition that there is an intermediate state between these two is a chimera.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

The two most advanced types of protein degraders are known as Protacs, or proteolysis targeting chimeras, and molecular glue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

The Nature Nanotechnology perspective, "Nanoparticle-mediated targeting chimeras transform targeted protein degradation," explores how this technology works and where it could be applied.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 28, 2026

Scientists hope that someday such chimeras could model human diseases: if inserted stem cells carry genomes associated with a specific condition, researchers can then study how they behave in an organism.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 10, 2023

Assemblages by Teresa Tolliver build fantastic chimeras from trophy-like lion sculptures cobbled together from scavenged elements — “Wild Things,” she calls them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2023

During the intervening period I had no time to nurse chimeras; and I believe I was as active and gay as anybody—Adèle excepted.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë