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
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
I felt satisfaction because such a geology confirmed that I was right, that this island was a chimera, a play of the mind.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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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
Scientists hope that someday such chimeras could model human diseases: if inserted stem cells carry genomes associated with a specific condition, researchers can then study how they behave in an organism.
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
But the report also noted that scientists at the WIV have engineered "chimeras", or combinations of coronaviruses, and used reverse genetic cloning techniques that could hide intentional changes.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 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
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