chimera
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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
Vocabulary lists containing chimera
The Lightning Thief
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Reading: Literature - Mythology - Introductory
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Reading: Literature - Mythology - Middle School
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