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
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
A palomino centaur hoisted me onto his back.
From "The Sea of Monsters" 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
So far, Osborne has suggested returning a smaller portion of the frieze, as well as carvings of gods and centaurs, as a short-term loan, the person said.
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 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
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
Reyna couldn’t see well in the dark, but she spotted at least one tribe of wild centaurs and an army of cynocephali, the dog-headed men who’d made an uneasy truce with the legion centuries ago.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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