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
Mayor Anatoliy Fedoruk, who likened the rebuilding to a bustling anthill, said residents are eager to close a deeply painful chapter.
From Reuters ● Mar. 30, 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
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
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
