haystack
Example Sentences
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Clough added, "As microplastic researchers looking for microplastics in the environment, we're searching for the needle in the haystack, but there really shouldn't be a needle to begin with."
From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026
This eliminates the costs and risks associated with pinpointing naturally occurring pockets of hot water, which are like needles in a haystack.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026
"It's like looking for a needle in a haystack," Pavia said.
From Science Daily • Nov. 13, 2025
"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.
From BBC • Aug. 30, 2025
“You were a needle in a haystack, to be sure!”
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
