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
But Oloya could not resist walking by an anthill without scooping some of the fresh, soft clay from it and creating a ball for a slingshot or something else from it.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2024
The position is so vast and covered in trenches, bunkers and tunnels that some parts have been compared to an anthill.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2023
“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
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
And then fire threatens his family and all those issues become anthills in comparison to surviving this night.
From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2023
They also look for good collection points such as anthills, the areas near certain types of indigenous trees and decomposing baobab trees, he said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 19, 2023
It avoided the clumps of nettles, and sidestepped known ditches and anthills.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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