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hydra

noun as in dragon

noun as in polyp

Strongest match

noun as in sea serpent

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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.

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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.

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

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“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.

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

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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