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Bernard Suits, a philosopher who focused on sports, disagreed, and he drew on Aesop’s fable of the ant and the grasshopper in his inventive rebuttal.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

I was sitting on a fire ant hill.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

"Royal Mail is a huge company and I'm just a small ant to them so I just take the easy option and go and pick up the mail myself."

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

In that research, scientists used Antscan data to investigate whether ant colonies benefit more from having many smaller workers or fewer individuals with stronger bodies.

From Science Daily • Mar. 10, 2026

And that’s what I’m staring at, frozen: an ant path of cabs, a city of yellow where everything would be grey back home.

From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle