anthill

When an anthill is disturbed, the response comes from the colony acting together rather than from any individual ant.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 8, 2026

“But if you’re in charge of a hydroelectric green-energy project and there’s an anthill in the region to be flooded, too bad for the ants. Let’s not place humanity in the position of those ants.”

From Slate ● May 9, 2023

"If I buy fertilizer, it means my grandchildren will not go to school. I had to use anthill soil and compost as manure but, as you know, that will not yield much," said 50-year-old Kanenungo.

From Reuters ● Mar. 22, 2023

All this has had the uncomfortable effect of "shaking a stick inside an anthill", it suggests.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2018

He stopped by a mighty anthill, with ridges running across the red mud as if they were deliberate designs.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The sandfly commonly shelters in cracks in poorly plastered mud houses, anthills and soil fissures, multiplying during the rainy season after prolonged drought.

From Barron's ● Feb. 8, 2026

The rendition is hypnotic but also distancing, making these utopian dreamworlds seem even more artificial than they already were, now ungrounded in space and time, crowds moving en masse through cosmic anthills.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026

Begay Sr. uses a walking stick to wind past pockets of yellow flowers, heavily trafficked anthills and the occasional prickly pear.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 30, 2023

And then fire threatens his family and all those issues become anthills in comparison to surviving this night.

From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2023

From afar, the many green, black, and blue plastic tents jut into the sky like thousands of anthills with blackhaired people frittering in every direction.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung