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

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

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

These include naive cells, which act like cells from a preimplantation embryo and are more readily incorporated, and primed pluripotent stem cells, which act like postimplantation cells and can’t be incorporated into chimeras at all.

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

While reproduction in these colonies does happen the regular way, crazy ant males simultaneously exhibit these strange reproductive capabilities as well, making them chimeras.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2023

But the images broke up of their own accord, weightless chimeras routed by a numbness that ran through him unchallenged.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy