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chimerical

[ki-mer-i-kuhl, -meer-, kahy-] / kɪˈmɛr ɪ kəl, -ˈmɪər-, kaɪ- /


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Claims made for the abilities or perils of AI chatbots have often turned out to be mistaken or chimerical.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2023

Ms. Mori’s creations look like chimerical species — hybrids of barnacles and cumulus clouds, a baobab and a weeping willow, a waterlily and fiddlehead ferns, sea urchin spines and a swarm of starlings.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2023

Why are so many chimerical Shangri-Las fraught with conflict?

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2023

In his eyes, though, speed is not where true value lies in a social media world, and particularly in that portion of it devoted to soccer’s chaotic, contradictory and often chimerical transfer market.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2022

The rather chimerical notion of a nuclear bomb without radioactive side effects had emerged in late 1954 and had been embraced by Livermore, where it fit nicely with the lab’s brief to explore new ideas.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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