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
“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
All this has had the uncomfortable effect of "shaking a stick inside an anthill", it suggests.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2018
Aru’s mother had collected some art depicting Rama’s adventures, and now Aru recalled an image of a sage sitting on an anthill.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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
Like a thousand giant anthills, they covered up all of those black irrigation hoses.
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
