ant

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Bernard Suits, a philosopher who focused on sports, disagreed, and he drew on Aesop’s fable of the ant and the grasshopper in his inventive rebuttal.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

When finished, the harvester ant would shake the smaller ants off, sometimes so forcefully that she flipped onto her back before quickly moving away.

From Science Daily • Apr. 14, 2026

I was sitting on a fire ant hill.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

"Royal Mail is a huge company and I'm just a small ant to them so I just take the easy option and go and pick up the mail myself."

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

An ant stung her on the ankle and she picked it up in her fingers and looked at it very close.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers