How to Use chimerical in a Sentence

chimerical

adjective

• Why are so many chimerical Shangri-Las fraught with conflict?
  — Anderson Tepper, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2023
• The company said the tax cut allowed it to pay bonuses of up to $1,000 to its workforce, but these turned out to be largely chimerical.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2019
• Start with the familiar and warp it into something more chimerical, and more startling.
  — Laura Rysman, ELLE, 22 Feb. 2023
• The Tory view that May would be their greatest electoral asset was revealed to be chimerical.
  — Alex Massie, The Atlantic, 9 June 2017
• The movie’s audaciously loose and chimerical plot is its greatest strength.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 May 2020
• Perhaps, but these numerical ponds seem to have been more like chimerical ponds.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 26 May 2018
• That would leave management enough time to assess whether the chances of challenging for a playoff spot are real or chimerical.
  — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 4 July 2018
• A few weeks ago the notion of a classic but modernized and fully realized Metroid game would have seemed chimerical.
  — Matt Peckham, Time, 23 June 2017
• This batting benchmark has become chimerical like Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2018
• The T cells are engineered to make a synthetic protein called a chimeric antigen receptor, or CAR, that guides the cell to seek and destroy cancer cells.
  — Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2022
• Moreover, the pre-election fears of widespread violence by the left and intimidation by the right proved largely chimerical.
  — Noah Millman, TheWeek, 4 Nov. 2020
• These T cells are then taken back to the lab, where they are genetically engineered to produce a chimeric antigen receptor, or CAR.
  — Gregory Allen, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2022
• There was a serene, domestic quality to the scene that felt as enchanted as Natasha’s picnic area: an eddy of calm, however chimerical, carved out of mayhem.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 23 July 2022
• That playoff run has taken on almost chimerical stature among Parishioners of the Parquet eager to shed Irving and his petulance and impetuousness.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2019
• The paintings are a series of chimerical scenes, freeform lines, and warm, balmy hues – exploring the relationship of various media in the artist's creation of unique, personal artwork.
  — Hero Stevenson, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Aug. 2015
• Scientists may be able to model future RNA synthesis on an original, chimeric process that doesn’t require enzymes at all.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 29 Dec. 2020
• The film explains how chimeric cells—named after a mythical monster formed of different animal parts—are when a fetus’ cells migrate into their mother’s organs and remain a piece of them.
  — Time, 13 Jan. 2023
• The treatment is a modification of chimeric antigen receptor, or CAR, T-cell therapy.
  — Nadia Kounang, CNN, 12 Dec. 2022
• This chimerical Keynes serves an ambiguous function, variously warm, needling, and obtuse.
  — Nathan Goldman, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2023
• As the technology industry faces growing government scrutiny, this may not be the time for a visionary, chimerical CEO.
  — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
• Rabbids merged with Mushroom Kingdom characters as chimeric doppelgangers befitting a sci-fi horror film.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2022
• Reports that the Russians, despite having a defense budget less than a tenth the size of ours, are somehow outpacing us in the development of weapons such as chimerical hypersonic missiles go largely unchallenged.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• Originally shot for television, intended as the first in a series of nuts-and-bolts, hourlong Broadway cast album recording documentaries, this ended up being a chimerical one-off.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 4 Aug. 2019
• The chimerical enemy is firmly within humanity, not as an abstraction of human nature but in real human form.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• In his eyes, though, speed is not where true value lies in a social media world, and particularly in that portion of it devoted to soccer’s chaotic, contradictory and often chimerical transfer market.
  — New York Times, 24 Jan. 2022
• Guardiola himself had acknowledged that before the game, half in jest, suggesting that there was not a vast amount of point in conducting the usual, instinctive analysis of Real Madrid because Ancelotti’s team is, by its very nature, so chimerical.
  — New York Times, 26 Apr. 2022
• Cincinnatus spends his last days in an absurd jail, where he is visited by chimerical jailers, an executioner who masquerades as a fellow prisoner, and by his in-laws, who lug their furniture with them into his cell.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 1 Sep. 2021
• There is no singular path forward for this many-headed chimeric media, but a series of simultaneous possibilities.
  — Wired, 11 Aug. 2022
• To put it in biblical terms, the line between obeying God and playing God is as blurry as that between domesticating animals for agriculture and creating chimerical creatures in laboratories.
  — Mark O’Connell, The New York Review of Books, 22 July 2021
• For Ms. Anderson, talking like Laurie Anderson has been the basis of a varied and chimerical career, sustained through six books, a dozen albums, multimedia performances for human and canine audiences and an acclaimed documentary film.
  — John Leland, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2017

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