centaur

Cheiron, the centaur and tutor of heroes, runs a preschool, but “unfortunately, the medical practice and pharmacy could never cover Cheiron’s fees.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 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

They glimpsed the centaur and his lady; she held a parasol and he a string market bag, and they were just another couple out for a stroll, buying vegetables for their supper.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

“The woods in ‘Harry Potter’ are controlled by centaurs, the schools are run by wizards and ghosts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2022

The centaurs have powers like the ability to become handsome for eight seconds, shoot tiny versions of themselves from their hoofs and other silly magical spells that will delight young children.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2021

Muggle-repelling charms prevent trespassers into the forests where centaurs and unicorns live and on the lakes and rivers set aside for the use of merpeople.

From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling