chimerical
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Sharply vivid rather than suggestively chimerical, the scenes and dances had a trim, finely honed character.
From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2024
Ms. Mori’s creations look like chimerical species — hybrids of barnacles and cumulus clouds, a baobab and a weeping willow, a waterlily and fiddlehead ferns, sea urchin spines and a swarm of starlings.
From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2023
COVID-19 is a chimerical beast — symptoms evolve as the condition drags on, and can vary widely between patients.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 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
But the AEC’s dream of thermonuclear research blooming via a collegial relationship between Los Alamos and Livermore proved chimerical.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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