haystack
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"This isn't like detecting a needle in a haystack. It's like detecting a microscopic portion of a needle in a haystack," said Steven Manderach, executive director of the Association of Food and Drug Officials.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
That kind of return is like finding a needle—or a pin—in a haystack.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
The best place to hide needles is in a haystack.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026
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
I guess I should have realized that a haystack is not a smart place to hide when you’re running from fire.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
“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
At the base of the pole from which the light bulb hung were three seeming haystacks.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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