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Recent Examples of chimera The chimera appear to float toward a star, as if drawn into -- or perhaps emerging from -- another plane of existence. Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025 Money savvy players might choose to horde their wealth and splurge on a powerful gun for the final boss round, in which the team must work together to bring down the likes of beastly chimeras that dig underground and towering mutants who perform whirlwind moves. Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 July 2025 Chasing this chimera occupied Coronado until the early part of 1542. Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025 Officials shouldn’t chase the chimera of independence but instead try to build flexibility in a diversified and interconnected system. Jason Bordoff, Foreign Affairs, 30 Nov. 2021 See All Example Sentences for chimera
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Noun
  • Inspired by mirrors, which reflect reality while simultaneously generating illusion, the collection explored the tension between the two.
    Denni Hu, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Her research examines people’s beliefs about what others think of them, including illusions and biases that can interfere with social connection, and interventions to improve people’s social lives.
    Maya Rossignac-Milon Erica Boothby, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Working with Jessica [Yu, director] is a dream.
    Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Saft’s decorating dreams began early.
    Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And Eggar sang and danced alongside Rex Harrison in Doctor Dolittle (1967), the musical fantasy about a guy who can talk to the animals.
    Chris Koseluk, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Good Fortune may be a comedy with a fantasy twist, but its watches give it weight and texture.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In pieces on patriotism as a kind of madness, on the long history of Polish and Russian colonizations and cultural appropriations of Ukraine, on the ways communities fantasize and share their daydreams, and others, Janion creates wormholes between past and present.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The series can feel like a collective daydream.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The documentary will trace Suzuki’s singular vision through rare archival material, interviews with Suzuki himself, his regular leading man Joe Shishido, and longtime production designer Takeo Kimura, alongside contemporary directors inspired by his work.
    Lise Pedersen, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
  • This season, fluorescent pink, blue and white formed a rational yet romantic palette — a vision of a young schoolgirl poised to step into the real world.
    Denni Hu, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Don’t let delusions (especially those planted by gaslighters) guide your thoughts and heart.
    Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Chatbots are known to validate users’ obsessions and delusions, and most of the litigation around this phenomenon has so far pertained to self-harm, as in the suits Jain has brought against OpenAI and Character Technologies.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025

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“Chimera.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chimera. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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