How to Use chimera in a Sentence

chimera

noun
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  • Economic stability in that country is a chimera.
  • Artists often portrayed these spirits as fantastic beasts and chimeras in paintings and sculptures.
    — James L. Fitzsimmons, The Conversation, 1 May 2024
  • In my view, r-star is not a beacon in the sky but a chimera in the eye.
    — Kevin Warsh, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2018
  • In essence, the head of the chimera is only there to stabilize the stalk.
    — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 7 Dec. 2020
  • In each of these, the advent of the chimera feels like a scourge, an indictment of the world of men.
    — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
  • In Greek legends, Bellerophon was sent to kill the chimera, and the scene depicts the creature ready to attack.
    — National Geographic, 20 Sep. 2017
  • On human-pig chimeras Why please sir, oh yes sir, take mine!
    — Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 31 Dec. 2019
  • This mythical chimera has been left in the pages of legend.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2021
  • Long had become a chimera, the technical term for the rare person with two sets of DNA.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Dec. 2019
  • Nancy emerged as a living chimera: her blood, in a sense, belonged to her twin.
    — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 15 July 2019
  • For women, a top job at even one of the top orchestras remains a chimera.
    — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2022
  • In the rankings of unusual critters, the Slingshot is up there with the sphinx, centaur, and chimera.
    — Alex Davies, WIRED, 4 July 2018
  • In real life, chimeras are rare and not quite as dramatic.
    — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 7 Dec. 2019
  • The long slog of the Premier League has proved easy to master in comparison with the chimera of the Champions League.
    — New York Times, 4 May 2021
  • Her group has begun to do that with the P. carolinus fireflies but not yet with the chimera-prone P. frontalis species.
    — Joshua Sokol, Quanta Magazine, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The strange hero in this chaotic world is Borne, an enigmatic chimera raised by the narrator, Rachel.
    — Nisi Shawl, The Seattle Times, 15 June 2017
  • Many of these mouse-rat chimeras lived to adulthood, and one reached its second birthday which, for a small rodent, is old age.
    — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
  • By eye, Mercier could see that at least one in every hundred anemone embryos is a chimera.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2011
  • Humanity built a refuge called the Ark and developed weapons called Legions to fight the chimera.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Those are known as chimeras, and they will be variegated depending on where the new plant forms.
    — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 14 Nov. 2019
  • So the entire chimera would be a mix of cells from both individuals.
    — Jeremy Rehm, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2018
  • These ants aren’t the only animals to be chimeras—mice, rabbits, cats and even humans have chimerism in some cases.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Apr. 2023
  • After just a week, the chimera pigs (and their eight regular pig siblings) died of unknown causes.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Up until last August, there was a ban on federal funding for any chimera research in the U.S.
    — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 27 Jan. 2017
  • The health and welfare of a chimera would need to be taken into account, as with any animal scientists use in the lab.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2021
  • Until now, when her sight is fixed on the chimera of social justice (against faith in heavenly justice).
    — Armond White, National Review, 28 Apr. 2023
  • After the chimeras reached adulthood, the researchers located the spiny rat iPS cells within their bodies.
    — Steph Yin, New York Times, 12 May 2017
  • Such mixed-species creatures are known as chimeras, after a monster in Greek mythology.
    — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
  • It’s a 6-foot-tall, 20-foot-long creature, a chimera, made of clay and featuring fake eyelashes and dentures, which speaks to both healing and the future.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2022
  • His own personal chimera is a return to a lost Eden littered with eaten apples.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 Mar. 2024

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