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 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
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
She rose slowly up the side of the centaur; when she was level with its chest she reached into the branches for the ball, but it was stuck deep inside.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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