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chimerical

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


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First and foremost, many businesses that went all-in on AI have discovered that the vaunted cost-savings its promoters promised have been chimerical at best.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2026

Since then it has become clear that general-purpose robots that look and act like humans are chimerical.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2025

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

Uto'pian, ideal, fanciful, chimerical: from "Utopia"—an imaginary island, represented by Sir Thomas More, in a work called "Utopia," as enjoying the greatest perfection in politics laws, and society.

From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton




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