haystack
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"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 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’s quickly resembling a small number of needles in a big haystack.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2026
Mom hangs up, hands me the phone, and hops down from the haystack.
From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya
“What you must realize,” he wrote to his first wife, Mary, “is that once I begin a story you become a character, not a person; Monet’s haystacks didn’t complain that they weren’t really purple.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 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 also slept in haystacks and near open fires that the homeless would sometimes build.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
