chimera

They mixed cells that had been developing for a year together with others that were only two weeks old, creating a "chimera".

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

Metcalfe’s pursuit of revelation in a single lost poem is magical thinking, a relentless grasping for a chimera.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 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

“We used the spring snare to snag that chimera last month. I don’t really like repeating ourselves. Makes us look less innovative than—” He stopped himself.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

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

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

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

From Scientific American ● May 31, 2023

During the intervening period I had no time to nurse chimeras; and I believe I was as active and gay as anybody—Adèle excepted.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë