chimera

They mixed cells that had been developing for a year together with others that were only two weeks old, creating a "chimera".

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 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

The supposition that there is an intermediate state between these two is a chimera.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

The two most advanced types of protein degraders are known as Protacs, or proteolysis targeting chimeras, and molecular glue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

This approach, which involves generating only skin tissue, could help avoid ethical concerns about using human-animal chimeras to produce organs for medical use.

From Science Daily ● May 29, 2024

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

While reproduction in these colonies does happen the regular way, crazy ant males simultaneously exhibit these strange reproductive capabilities as well, making them chimeras.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2023

One clings then to chimeras, by which one can only be betrayed, and the entire hope—the entire possibility—of freedom disappears.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin