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
"In this case, finding a few cysts of cyclospora in a lettuce sample is literally like looking for a needle in a haystack," he continued.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
The point is to be wary of argument by anecdote, since the trading database is a big haystack, and journalists are pattern-seeking animals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
That kind of return is like finding a needle—or a pin—in a haystack.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
For eight months they had lived and multiplied in the haystack.
From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck
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
He sends studies for paintings to Émile Bernard: haystacks, fishing boats, a row of cottages, a sower with the setting sun, a harvest scene, and washerwomen at a canal with a bridge.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
