haystack
Example Sentences
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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
"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
Otherwise it’d be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
