: any of a family (Formicidae) of colonial hymenopterous insects with a complex social organization and various castes performing special duties
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antenna
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antonym
Antarctica
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a
: one that performs (a specified action) : personal or impersonal agent
claimant
coolant
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: thing that promotes (a specified action or process)
expectorant
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: one connected with
annuitant
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: thing acted upon (in a specified manner)
inhalant
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: performing (a specified action) or being (in a specified condition)
somnambulant
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: promoting (a specified action or process)
expectorant
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New Atlas, 24 Dec. 2024
Jana’s flights of fancy drive the film’s aesthetics, with D.P. Jeremy Snell keeping the camera at uncomfortably close levels — so much so that ants, flies, blades of grass and grains of sands often take up the bulk of the screen.
—Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 14 Dec. 2024
During this era, mathematical equations sporadically swarmed into the feature well like ants at a picnic.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Oct. 2024
Still buckled into her seat after the fuselage exploded around her, Rebecca would have been eaten alive by the ants if not for the tribesman who rescued her from the rubble and carried the girl back to Christian civilization.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2024
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Noun
Bees, ants and birds, among others, use it for navigation.
—New Atlas, 24 Dec. 2024
Jana’s flights of fancy drive the film’s aesthetics, with D.P. Jeremy Snell keeping the camera at uncomfortably close levels — so much so that ants, flies, blades of grass and grains of sands often take up the bulk of the screen.
—Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 14 Dec. 2024
During this era, mathematical equations sporadically swarmed into the feature well like ants at a picnic.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Oct. 2024
Still buckled into her seat after the fuselage exploded around her, Rebecca would have been eaten alive by the ants if not for the tribesman who rescued her from the rubble and carried the girl back to Christian civilization.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2024
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“Ant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ant. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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