anthill
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When an anthill is disturbed, the response comes from the colony acting together rather than from any individual ant.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 8, 2026
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
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
They found Holly with Bluebell and Pipkin, on the turf by the anthill where Dandelion had first looked over the down.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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
Tendai couldn’t see what until they stepped back to reveal two mounds of dirt the size of small anthills.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
