haystack
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Searching among 950 million trees scattered across mountains and deep valleys was like looking for a needle in a haystack.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
Sam Smith started at barn dances, singing on top of a haystack.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
That kind of return is like finding a needle—or a pin—in a haystack.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
The best place to hide needles is in a haystack.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026
Past the barn he ran, and past the used-up haystack and the bunkhouse and the cypress tree.
From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck
Today, the Art Gallery of Ontario believes it knows who its mystery girl is and who painted her—the art-historical equivalent of finding a needle in myriad haystacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
"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
Their houses and barns and haystacks, and the unsuspected secret passages inside the big farmhouses, were called depots and stations.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
