chimerical

Example Sentences

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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

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

In his eyes, though, speed is not where true value lies in a social media world, and particularly in that portion of it devoted to soccer’s chaotic, contradictory and often chimerical transfer market.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2022

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

Uto'pian, ideal, fanciful, chimerical: from "Utopia"—an imaginary island, represented by Sir Thomas More, in a work called "Utopia," as enjoying the greatest perfection in politics laws, and society.

From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton