Pegasus
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Pegasi
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Classical Mythology. a winged horse, created from the blood of Medusa, that opened the spring of Hippocrene with a stroke of its hoof, and that carried Bellerophon in his attack on the Chimera.
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Astronomy. the Winged Horse, a northern constellation between Cygnus and Aquarius.
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As the flying horse of the Muses, Pegasus is a symbol of high-flying poetic imagination.
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Nike, and some retailers, have also cited the popularity of running sneakers like the Vomero and the Pegasus.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
However the reports published by a media consortium, led by Forbidden Stories, about the Pegasus spyware threatened to overshadow his visit.
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
He had initially opened Pegasus Books in Bend, Ore., in 1980, with plans to become an author.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
The trail features a zodiac-inspired constellation in Sloane Square, a lunar landscape and Saturn display at Duke of York Square, and a four-metre floral dragon and Pegasus on Sloane Street.
From BBC ● May 20, 2026
Hopeful at last with it in his hand, he hurried out to the fields to find Pegasus.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Just inside, Max Streicher’s “Quadriga” stages massive billowing horses that call to mind wingless Pegasi the way they seem to gallop through the air.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2024
The research was funded, in part, by the Heising-Simons Foundation and the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship program.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 22, 2024
Out with the hand drawn-animated ponies, in with their creepily-anthropomorphized, digitally-animated brethren: the “new generation,” if you will, which includes not only ponies but Pegasi and unicorns from all over Equestria.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2021
Indeed, the first planet they found, 51 Pegasi b, orbits a sun 50 light years away that heats its surface to more than 1,000 degrees centigrade, the award-giving academy said.
From Reuters ● Oct. 8, 2019
Location.—A line drawn from α Pegasi through ζ and θ in the same constellation, and projected about 25°, strikes α and β in Capricornus.
From A Field Book of the Stars by William Tyler Olcott
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