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
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
The set builds patiently: The chimerical string orchestra of “Les Illuminations” adds Christopher Parkes’s splendid horn in the Serenade and then fiercely independent winds, harp and timpani in the Nocturne.
From New York Times • Aug. 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
Vocabulary lists containing chimerical
Frankenstein
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