fanciful
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Those predictions made over a decade ago that he could challenge the numbers posted by Nicklaus and Woods remain fanciful.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
Although I was not entirely new to fanciful make-’em-ups.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
It is not fanciful to suspect that Iranian capabilities are being degraded very quickly.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 13, 2026
Architecture critics, who like to put the chapel in a historical context, regard it as a turning point in the discipline—its fanciful use of concrete anticipates Brutalism and its unusual shapes herald Post-Modernism.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
Certainly there are spots which inevitably attach to themselves an atmosphere of holiness and goodness; it might not then be too fanciful to say that some houses are born bad.
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
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