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
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
Instead he now makes bricks for sale on the edge of the family land, chipping away at a huge anthill, mixing the mud, and compacting it.
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2021
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
They looked, Mrs. Frisby thought, like very large ants endlessly toiling on an anthill.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
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
