haystack
Example Sentences
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Maven was built to find the needle in the haystack.
From Barron's • Apr. 5, 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
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 a needle in a haystack to find an opportunity that makes financial sense to build today,” Goldstein said.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2025
For eight months they had lived and multiplied in the haystack.
From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
