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
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
She read about Mount Olympus and creatures like the chimera and the phoenix, and then read the story of Prometheus.
From "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick
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
Then there are the men who pursue more fanciful chimeras, the imagi-makers whose visions helped to give L.A. its reputation as a place where quirky notions can find fertile purchase.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 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
Mythical hybrid beasts such as mermaids, centaurs and chimeras testify to our enduring fascination with the plasticity of biological form: the idea that natural organisms can mutate or be reconfigured.
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
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