centaur
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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
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
Sagittarius is generally depicted as the Archer, a centaur holding a bow.
From Scientific American • Aug. 4, 2023
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
A palomino centaur hoisted me onto his back.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
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