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Projections of economic gains from major sporting events are typically optimistic, euphoric, chimerical or conjectural.

Sharply vivid rather than suggestively chimerical, the scenes and dances had a trim, finely honed character.

Claims made for the abilities or perils of AI chatbots have often turned out to be mistaken or chimerical.

Which is to say, this was a precious, anticipated, frankly anxious affair — the materialization of a beloved and mercurial performer moving from the chimerical to the literal.

Ms. Mori’s creations look like chimerical species — hybrids of barnacles and cumulus clouds, a baobab and a weeping willow, a waterlily and fiddlehead ferns, sea urchin spines and a swarm of starlings.