centaur
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In automation theory, Doctorow writes, a centaur is “a person who is assisted by a machine.”
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
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
For reasons that have yet to be explained, parts of the centaur head are coated with a thin brown film, as are several other marble fragments from the Parthenon.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 18, 2024
In another hall, art students sketched a sculpture of a centaur from the Parthenon Marbles.
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2023
“Never,” said Hagrid irritably, “try an’ get a straight answer out of a centaur.
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
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
We encounter it first in Homer’s “Iliad” and then again in Virgil’s “Aeneid,” where it appears at the doors of Hades alongside Gorgons, centaurs and Harpies.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 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
Streets and buildings began to blur as the centaurs picked up speed.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
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