How to Use chimerical in a Sentence
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Why are so many chimerical Shangri-Las fraught with conflict?
—Anderson Tepper, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2023
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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
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Start with the familiar and warp it into something more chimerical, and more startling.
—Laura Rysman, ELLE, 22 Feb. 2023
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The Tory view that May would be their greatest electoral asset was revealed to be chimerical.
—Alex Massie, The Atlantic, 9 June 2017
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The movie’s audaciously loose and chimerical plot is its greatest strength.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 May 2020
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Perhaps, but these numerical ponds seem to have been more like chimerical ponds.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 26 May 2018
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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
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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
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This batting benchmark has become chimerical like Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster.
—Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The treatment is a modification of chimeric antigen receptor, or CAR, T-cell therapy.
—Nadia Kounang, CNN, 12 Dec. 2022
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This chimerical Keynes serves an ambiguous function, variously warm, needling, and obtuse.
—Nathan Goldman, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2023
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As the technology industry faces growing government scrutiny, this may not be the time for a visionary, chimerical CEO.
—Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
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Rabbids merged with Mushroom Kingdom characters as chimeric doppelgangers befitting a sci-fi horror film.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There is no singular path forward for this many-headed chimeric media, but a series of simultaneous possibilities.
—Wired, 11 Aug. 2022
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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
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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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