haystack

Example Sentences

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It’s quickly resembling a small number of needles in a big haystack.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026

Maven was built to find the needle in the haystack.

From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026

The messages, sent in 2018 and 2019—and up until the day before Epstein’s arrest—were needles in a roughly 20,000-page haystack of Epstein documents released by a House committee last week.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

"It's like looking for a needle in a haystack," Pavia said.

From Science Daily • Nov. 13, 2025

Since it had no reason to choose one haystack over the other, it just stayed in the middle until it died of hunger.

From "Small Steps" by Louis Sachar