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

Everyone’s vying to be the centaur of attention in the new kid-friendly animated musical fantasy series “Centaurworld” featuring the voices of Broadway’s Jessie Mueller and Megan Hilty.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2021

Ahead of him, the centaur had hauled the anchor of the Shadow Dancer and taken hold of the tiller.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell