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- noun Plural form of
hyena .
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Examples
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Microsoft will follow – Bill Gates cannot live forever and the hyenas are at the gate.
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Their bodies and numerous other animals, such as hyenas and antelopes, were then washed into pits in the caves and entombed in mud during a drought-ending storm.
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The history of the investigation of the ancient gravel beds of the Somme is briefly this: More than one instance had been noted of the finding of flint implements, apparently the work of men, in association with bones of various animals, such as hyenas, mammoths, musk-sheep, and others, which, as we have just seen, lived in Europe during the Glacial Age.
The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen
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Beware certain "hyenas" within the factoring industry, predators who use their powerful jaws to rip hunks out of your financial security.
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They are joined by thousands of zebras, elephants, and giraffes, as well as predators such as hyenas and lions, as they make a seasonal move that coincides with the changing of the wet and dry seasons, and the shift in location of food and water sources.
Gadling 2010
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All of the dark side of the man who once urged "atomic extermination" for American "hyenas" is missing from the two current films about his life.
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She walks to a restaurant called Le Steak de Paris (Long-Winded Lady spends a lot of time in small restaurants), where she orders sardines and bread, and vows not to think about the "hyenas" in the bookshop:
Anecdotal Evidence 2008
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They call themselves cougars, but I think they are more like coyotes and hyenas, all Botoxed and fixated on men, hungrily eyeing them like candy bars or donuts all the time.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
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Trying to drug us all is the goal of the hyenas who control things these days.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
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The paintings are filled-out with often dreamlike imagery: hyenas, sprites, alighting birds, and are finally intermingled with an array of extremely intricate and gestural abstract shapes, strokes, patterns and marks.
Bill Bush: Made in L.A.: This Artweek.LA (October 10-16, 2011) Bill Bush 2011
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