Pegasus
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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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He had initially opened Pegasus Books in Bend, Ore., in 1980, with plans to become an author.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
Documents have also proved that Mexico's military spied on Ramos by infecting his phone with Pegasus spyware.
From Barron's ● May 14, 2026
Similarly, Nike debuted the ACG Pegasus Trail in April for customers who like the lightweight, responsive Pegasus Road shoe but were moving to the dirt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
He has a track record of finding dangerous flaws in software that allow hackers to break in including work on the infamous Pegasus spyware.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026
And I thought about Gus and Bertha holding hands under the glow of Pegasus.
From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor
Jerry Xuan, a 51 Pegasi b Fellow at UCLA, built sophisticated atmospheric models to compare with the telescope's spectra and determine whether sulfur was present.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 11, 2026
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
One of their stars, a sunlike star named 51 Pegasi, was moving to-and-fro with an amplitude of 50 meters per second, and a period of only 4.2 days.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 12, 2019
The erratic star was 51 Pegasi, similar to our sun and 51 light years away.
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2019
Decorative, also, are the sculptured medallions between these columns, and the Pegasi on the spandrels of the arch, the medallions done by Calder, the Pegasi by Roth.
From The Jewel City by Macomber, Ben
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