chimerical

Example Sentences

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Projections of economic gains from major sporting events are typically optimistic, euphoric, chimerical or conjectural.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2025

Which is to say, this was a precious, anticipated, frankly anxious affair — the materialization of a beloved and mercurial performer moving from the chimerical to the literal.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2023

The chimerical enemy is firmly within humanity, not as an abstraction of human nature but in real human form.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2023

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2023

However many dreams she had navigated, whatever chimerical fancies she had witnessed, she had never interacted.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor