chimera

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

From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026

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

“She was kind of a chimera, rather than a knowable quantity — intellectual, bright and a little bit mysterious in some way that I can’t quite articulate,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2024

She read about Mount Olympus and creatures like the chimera and the phoenix, and then read the story of Prometheus.

From "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick

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

This approach, which involves generating only skin tissue, could help avoid ethical concerns about using human-animal chimeras to produce organs for medical use.

From Science Daily ● May 29, 2024

Then there are the men who pursue more fanciful chimeras, the imagi-makers whose visions helped to give L.A. its reputation as a place where quirky notions can find fertile purchase.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2023

Organoids, chimeras and xenobots all suggest that cells can make stable entities other than those Darwinian evolution supplies.

From Scientific American ● May 31, 2023

One clings then to chimeras, by which one can only be betrayed, and the entire hope—the entire possibility—of freedom disappears.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin