hyd.
Americanabbreviation
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hydraulics.
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hydrostatics.
Example Sentences
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Welsh folk singer Dafydd Iwan says he has received "very personal" and "nasty" comments after urging organisers of a right-wing protest to stop using his song Yma o Hyd.
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Similarly, in June 2023, Iwan, called on protesters to stop using Yma o Hyd in opposition to housing asylum seekers at the Stradey Park Hotel in Carmarthenshire.
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Originally recorded in the early 1980s, Iwan said Yma o Hyd is a powerful anthem about Wales' "survivability and the fact that Wales and the language and our culture and our integrity as a nation has survived despite all the odds".
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"I never turn down a challenge. Stephanie Pineiro Aquino is a dangerous fighter, but nothing is going to stop me from getting my hand raised on April 4 in Cardiff. Yma o hyd."
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Dafydd Iwan played his anthemic protest song Yma O Hyd before kick-off; the iconic singer in tears as he heard his Welsh-language masterpiece sung back to him by more than 30,000 people, many of whom did not speak the language.
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