hydra

Example Sentences

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Samar shares the popular view that for every senior official "they've reportedly assigned three to seven successors. Like a hydra - you cut one head off, another grows back. They won't surrender any time soon."

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

"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

She also kept a fight from breaking out between the children of Mars and the children of Ares over the best way to kill a hydra.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan