grasshopper
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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
The researchers partnered with farmers in Senegal who regularly face outbreaks of the Senegalese grasshopper.
From Science Daily • Jan. 24, 2026
Whether you are a grasshopper or a bird or a human, if you start destroying the environment in which you live, then you are overpopulated.
From Salon • Nov. 30, 2024
"If someone reported us, we'd pick up the food and run, like a grasshopper," he said.
From BBC • Dec. 5, 2023
She could tell when they entered the tall grass a minute after she did, because the grass moved hissingly beneath their feet and a startled grasshopper leaped wildly away.
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
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