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hydra

[hahy-druh] / ˈhaɪ drə /


NOUN
dragon
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NOUN
polyp
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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

It described Clayton Homes as “a many-headed hydra” that builds almost half of the nation’s mobile homes, then sells those homes through its retailers.

From Salon

“It’s like a hydra, like a three-headed monster!” she says with a hearty laugh.

From Los Angeles Times

“Like the hydra, you can cut off my head and hold it up for the world to see, but two more will quietly appear and be working in the shadows,” Meyer wrote to Moore.

From Salon

"We are fighting the hydra that is the Muslim Brotherhood, because it creates an atmosphere of jihadism," the politician told conservative TV channel CNews.

From BBC