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 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
Mal glared at the centaur, flushing red, and Christopher glared too, in loyalty.
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
‘Fantasia’ Hippos and gators and centaurs, oh my!
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2022
Ancient Egyptians had the Sphinx, a human-lion-falcon mashup akin to mythical Greco-Roman centaurs and fauns.
From Slate ● Feb. 14, 2022
But most men don’t find peace imagining themselves as centaurs.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2021
Veteran demigods from the city had joined the battle, and were pushing their shield wall against an onslaught of wild centaurs.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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