haystack
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Sam Smith started at barn dances, singing on top of a haystack.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
“The reality is the markets have changed. The haystack now includes private markets which our clients today just don’t have much access to,” Davis said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
The best place to hide needles is in a haystack.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026
The process can take months for a single archaeological site and often feels like searching for a needle in a haystack.
From Science Daily ● May 11, 2026
For eight months they had lived and multiplied in the haystack.
From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck
“What you must realize,” he wrote to his first wife, Mary, “is that once I begin a story you become a character, not a person; Monet’s haystacks didn’t complain that they weren’t really purple.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
"It's not just one needle in a haystack, but one needle in several haystacks," Singapore's second minister for home affairs, Josephine Teo, told parliament in October last year.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2024
"You really are fishing needles out of haystacks."
From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024
Rather than spotting needles in a haystack, Gold said, satellites tend to capture “really big haystacks that are moving very slowly.”
From Science Magazine ● May 31, 2023
Because many of the tracks had no inner rail, some jockeys simply cut through the infield, dodging haystacks, to win.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
