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
“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
It was the haystack in the last red glow of sundown.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
I’ve used AI to summarize vast swaths of documents and pull needles from giant haystacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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
They gave speeches in front of haystacks and wandered around in dad jeans pressing the flesh.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 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
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