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 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
The Stolls looked kind of worried about the old centaur, but at least he was alive.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
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
Through the smokescreen of a twisted fantasy teeming with centaurs, robot bandits and talking dogs who eat corpses, Sorokin smuggles in a sly critique of contemporary Russia’s turn toward totalitarianism.
From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 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
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
“You are all true heroes. And as soon as we get Percy fixed up, you must return to Half-Blood Hill. The centaurs shall carry you. “You're coming, too?”
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
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