centaur
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The result was a new breed of centaur: half-man, half-machine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
In automation theory, Doctorow writes, a centaur is “a person who is assisted by a machine.”
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
For their investigations, the research team was allowed to take five small samples from the back of the centaur head.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 18, 2024
In 2013, astronomers discovered a couple of rings around Chariklo, a body known as a centaur that orbits the sun between Saturn and Uranus.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2023
The centaur slapped it fondly on a fender.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
Mythical hybrid beasts such as mermaids, centaurs and chimeras testify to our enduring fascination with the plasticity of biological form: the idea that natural organisms can mutate or be reconfigured.
From Scientific American ● May 31, 2023
Brown: The one to check out now is “Centaurworld,” a show about magical centaurs, voiced by a cast that includes Broadway talent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2021
But most men don’t find peace imagining themselves as centaurs.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2021
Not human magic; the world of New Mushroomton, where the film is set, is filled with mythical creatures: Trolls, elves and centaurs are just some of the species that share space with one another.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 4, 2020
Then there was a wild chorus of war cries and hooves thundering against metaL A dozen centaurs charged out of the main stairwell “Ponies!”
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
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