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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 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 dogs look up as one, a three-headed hydra.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr