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
"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
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
Better than being buried in an anthill with a boa constrictor around your neck and lima beans stuffed in your mouth.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
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
Then he stared upward over the anthills, to the open down rising above.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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