centaur
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Hassabis believes we are now entering that centaur era of science.
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 reasons that have yet to be explained, parts of the centaur head are coated with a thin brown film, as are several other marble fragments from the Parthenon.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 18, 2024
Grover, it turns out, is a satyr, charged with protecting Percy; Mr. Brunner is really a centaur named Chiron.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2023
He probably wanted to look reassuring, but in centaur form he towered over me, casting a shadow across the table.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
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
Through the smokescreen of a twisted fantasy teeming with centaurs, robot bandits and talking dogs who eat corpses, Sorokin smuggles in a sly critique of contemporary Russia’s turn toward totalitarianism.
From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2022
Ancient Egyptians had the Sphinx, a human-lion-falcon mashup akin to mythical Greco-Roman centaurs and fauns.
From Slate ● Feb. 14, 2022
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
The gorgons had disabled the giant eagles and now flew unchallenged over the giant’s remaining centaurs and the Earthborn, trying to rally them.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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