anthill

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

"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

Cal had quickly lost his awe of the changed feeling in the house and had been examining this anthill with calculating eyes, trying to determine just how to kick it over.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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

They peered over anthills and looked cautiously round clumps of teazle.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams