centaur

In automation theory, Doctorow writes, a centaur is “a person who is assisted by a machine.”

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

No one can convince her otherwise, and she decides to win her spouse back with an enchanted robe that the dying centaur Nessus told her was a love charm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 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

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

“Dude!” the centaur groaned, almost buckling under Tysons weight.

From "The Sea of Monsters" 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

As wonderfully whimsical and weird the show’s world may be, then, Horse and her story — as well as the magical centaurs — remain very much grounded.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 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

Tyson was alarmed to learn that bad Cyclopes and bad centaurs were in the giant’s army.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan