chimerical

Example Sentences

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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

Sharply vivid rather than suggestively chimerical, the scenes and dances had a trim, finely honed character.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2024

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

A film museum had been a seemingly chimerical dream within the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences virtually since its founding in 1927.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2021

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