hydra
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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
“Like the hydra, when you cut one head off and two more grow in its place. That’s what all of us are working towards.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2023
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
Suspended from the ceiling were cages of live animals—a lion, several zebras, a whole pack of hyenas, and even an eight-headed hydra.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
Vocabulary lists containing hydra
Elements of the Universe: Hydr, Hydro ("Water")
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Reading: Literature - Mythology - Introductory
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Reading: Literature - Mythology - Middle School
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