anthill
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Rather than thinking of Schrödinger's cat, Bühler-Paschen says the experiment is more like an anthill.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 8, 2026
"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
While wandering the sandy area by the parking lot to pass the time, I accidentally stepped on an anthill and the bugs swarmed my exposed foot.
From Slate ● Nov. 23, 2019
All this has had the uncomfortable effect of "shaking a stick inside an anthill", it suggests.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2018
Ikwa and Songololo joined me and Otto, and we four sat on a log and stared at a nearby anthill.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
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
And the anthills and the rocks told the truth of themselves.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
