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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 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

A recent profile in a French news site described Mr. Onishi and others as “kicking the anthill just by naming things” that had previously gone unspoken.

From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2020

He poured a mound of grits the size of an anthill onto the pine floor.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

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