centaur
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The result was a new breed of centaur: half-man, half-machine.
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 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
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
Outside, a second girl was approaching the centaur.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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
Ancient Egyptians had the Sphinx, a human-lion-falcon mashup akin to mythical Greco-Roman centaurs and fauns.
From Slate ● Feb. 14, 2022
Brown: The one to check out now is “Centaurworld,” a show about magical centaurs, voiced by a cast that includes Broadway talent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 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
Once, I spotted a family of centaurs galloping across a wheat field, bows at the ready, as they hunted lunch.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
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