centaur
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Other portraits feature a loser’s face on a shirtless firefighter sitting near a blaze, and another member’s image atop a centaur.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025
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
Sagittarius is generally depicted as the Archer, a centaur holding a bow.
From Scientific American • Aug. 4, 2023
I gasped with delight when a tail-swishing centaur stepped onstage and couldn’t help but scream at the sight of cloaked Dementors flying above my seat.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 2022
I guess I should mention— Chiron is a centaur.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
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