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
Air pollution is also unlikely for another reason; the centaur head has been indoors in Copenhagen since before the modern industrialization began in the 18th century.
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
But as they stepped out into the hallway, he let out a hiss and pulled Mal down to crouch behind a statue of a centaur.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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
Ancient Egyptians had the Sphinx, a human-lion-falcon mashup akin to mythical Greco-Roman centaurs and fauns.
From Slate ● Feb. 14, 2022
“The woods in ‘Harry Potter’ are controlled by centaurs, the schools are run by wizards and ghosts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2022
But most men don’t find peace imagining themselves as centaurs.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2021
As they plummeted, Jason saw a vast army of monsters spread across the hills - cynocephali, two-headed men, wild centaurs, ogres and others he couldn’t even name - surrounding two tiny islands of demigods.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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