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  • noun Plural form of hoya.

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Examples

  • Would love to have been there for Cal's home run on 2131. as a georgetown alum, the most amazing event i ever attended was the hoyas 'win over undefeated #1 duke on 1 / 21 / 06 at the verizon center. absolutely unbelievable to Andrew:

    Blog updates 2009

  • JT-III is a whale of a coach and the hoyas will be among the elite all the way until the madness starts.

    Latest Headlines - ABC 7 News 2009

  • i saw a guy, snowboarding, with a flannel-from-stitches and oversized-jeans-bellbottoms with a georgetown hoyas hat at the ski place i was at. i asked him if he thought he was counterculture. he said yes.

    In a Free Land Issue #2 by Rageboy Publications 1994

  • It was discovered that thousands of square miles of Australian soil never catch glimpses of the sun in consequence of the impenetrableness of the shade of Australian trees; that the scent of the wattles, the eucalypts, the boronias, the hoyas, the gardenias, the lotus, etc., etc., are among the sweetest and cleanest, most powerful and most varied in the world; that many of the birds of Australia have songs full of melody; that the so-called

    Confessions of a Beachcomber 1887

  • i must say that i'm one of the paranoid that doesn't use filters on all his lenses, especially my cheap ones. and in the studio ... really, why bother. in the past when i've wanted to protect better lenses when i'm shooting outside i've used hoya s-hmc or b+w mrc. the hoyas are excellent but a serious pain to clean. the b+w are also nice and a lot easier to clean.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com) 2010

  • i must say that i'm one of the paranoid that doesn't use filters on all his lenses, especially my cheap ones. and in the studio ... really, why bother. in the past when i've wanted to protect better lenses when i'm shooting outside i've used hoya s-hmc or b+w mrc. the hoyas are excellent but a serious pain to clean. the b+w are also nice and a lot easier to clean.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com) 2010

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