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chimerical

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


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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

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

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

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

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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