chimera

Example Sentences

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He dismissed President Trump’s maximalist campaign targeting Tehran as “a pressure tactic wrapped in bellicosity folded inside a chimera.”

From Los Angeles Times

China's national science programme said cloned pigs were a stepping stone to chimeras, a controversial area where China wanted to lead the world.

From Reuters

The intelligence report said the Wuhan Institute of Virology had previously made chimeras, or combinations of coronavirus that did not occur in nature.

From New York Times

Virologists who have reviewed the EcoHealth grant disagree on whether the chimera experiments fit the U.S. definition of GOF research of concern, according to a story last month in The Intercept.

From Science Magazine

This spring, researchers detected a new coronavirus in Malaysian children who had pneumonia — a chimera of sorts, similar to a coronavirus in dogs, but with signatures of feline and porcine coronaviruses as well.

From Washington Post