Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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"Lachnospiraceae may be the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of the gut," Kim said.
From Science Daily • Nov. 12, 2025
“Bitcoin is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when it comes to how it reacts to Fed rate expectations,” Moya said.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 17, 2023
Just like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, when a certain kind of grasshopper senses its environment changing, either from food scarcity or overcrowding, it can transform itself within hours to a manically aggressive locust.
From Salon • May 30, 2021
Two classics of horror writing, Dracula and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, are both about the monsters that lurked within bourgeois society.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
Maddie recommended Heart of Darkness and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, plus a book by some guy called Goffman titled The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
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