hydra

Example Sentences

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"In 20 years, and despite the resolute efforts of our police officers, gendarmes, judges, teachers and elected officials, the antisemitic hydra has kept advancing," he said.

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

Aside from giving housing and homelessness their own box atop Newsom’s organizational chart, the chief selling point of the reorganization has been to simplify the state’s hydra of affordable housing financing systems.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2025

This suggests that evolution plays around with these chemical pathways, altering them over the hundreds of millions of years since the hydra and human lineages diverged from each other on the evolutionary tree.

From Scientific American • Jun. 16, 2023

"Greek football is a hydra with many heads. You cut one, others emerge."

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2022

The hydra barreled toward him, blocking his view of the giant.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan