chimerical

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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

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

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2024

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

COVID-19 is a chimerical beast — symptoms evolve as the condition drags on, and can vary widely between patients.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 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