centaur

In automation theory, Doctorow writes, a centaur is “a person who is assisted by a machine.”

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

No one can convince her otherwise, and she decides to win her spouse back with an enchanted robe that the dying centaur Nessus told her was a love charm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

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

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

Professor McGonagall turned next to Parvati Patil, whose first question was whether Firenze, the handsome centaur, was still teaching Divination.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

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

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

As wonderfully whimsical and weird the show’s world may be, then, Horse and her story — as well as the magical centaurs — remain very much grounded.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2021

But most men don’t find peace imagining themselves as centaurs.

From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2021

The corridor was flanked on both sides by marble statues of creatures: nymphs and dryads, armed centaurs, a unicorn.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell