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
Which is to say, this was a precious, anticipated, frankly anxious affair — the materialization of a beloved and mercurial performer moving from the chimerical to the literal.
From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2023
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
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
However many dreams she had navigated, whatever chimerical fancies she had witnessed, she had never interacted.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Vocabulary lists containing chimerical
Frankenstein
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