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haystack

noun as in stack of hay

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“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.”

I’ve used AI to summarize vast swaths of documents and pull needles from giant haystacks.

“It’s a needle in a haystack to find an opportunity that makes financial sense to build today,” Goldstein said.

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The preschoolers were fascinated, looking at their classroom through the lens of an iPad camera, watching animated images pop up as a cheerful voice told them: Feed apples to a pig behind a haystack.

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"They are looking for a needle in a haystack, sometimes looking for single beetles - to get hold of the pioneer species before they are allowed to establish," Andrea Deol said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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