chimera
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Yet the idea that a Netflix-WBD merger would extinguish video competition is a chimera.
From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026
Also known as a spookfish or chimera, ghost sharks are closely related to sharks and rays.
From BBC • Sep. 24, 2024
Freud, who catalyzed the study of dreams with his foundational 1899 treatise, would have discounted this as a mere chimera of the wishful unconscious.
From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2024
“She was kind of a chimera, rather than a knowable quantity — intellectual, bright and a little bit mysterious in some way that I can’t quite articulate,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2024
She read about Mount Olympus and creatures like the chimera and the phoenix, and then read the story of Prometheus.
From "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.