hydra
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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
The lake has many species, including sexually reproducing frogs, water fleas that multiply by parthenogenesis, hydra that multiply by budding, and sponges that multiply by fragmentation.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
The dogs look up as one, a three-headed hydra.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Budding occurs commonly in some invertebrate animals such as corals and hydras.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
"Online services are like hydras, if you fix one problem, another one often emerges," James Mickens, a professor of computer science at Harvard, explains in a statement.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2021
Everyone in New York has heard about co-op boards that proved to be the most persnickety of the many many-headed hydras exerting authority over daily life.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2016
The name van Leeuwenhoek gave them was “polyps,” though they would eventually be commonly known as hydras.
From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2016
“The lemon ones, yes. The grape ones are Furies, I think. Or are they hydras? At any rate, these are potent. Don't take one unless you really, really need it.”
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
In EX Hydrae, the magnetic field is not strong enough to direct all incoming material onto the star's magnetic poles.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 8, 2026
EX Hydrae exists in a binary system alongside a normal main sequence star.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 8, 2026
The infalling matter collides with other material bound to the white dwarf, forming tall columns of hot gas that emit intense X-rays, making systems like EX Hydrae ideal targets for IXPE.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 8, 2026
The mission's ability to measure the polarization of X-rays allowed astronomers to closely examine EX Hydrae, a type of system known as an intermediate polar.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 8, 2026
They have a model, a most ingenious affair run by clockwork, at the University of Konkrook, to show the apparent movement and position of Beta Hydrae in the sky; it does so fairly accurately.
From Uller Uprising by Clark, John D.
Vocabulary lists containing hydra
Elements of the Universe: Hydr, Hydro ("Water")
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Reading: Literature - Mythology - Introductory
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