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

“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

The sword wasn’t designed for that, but the Celestial bronze blade sliced through the chains suspending the hydra.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan