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
Sam Smith started at barn dances, singing on top of a haystack.
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
The best place to hide needles is in a haystack.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026
Arriving at the used-up haystack, the boy leaned against the barbed wire fence.
From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck
“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
Rather than spotting needles in a haystack, Gold said, satellites tend to capture “really big haystacks that are moving very slowly.”
From Science Magazine ● May 31, 2023
Seeing haystacks in a nearby field, Jinjoo suggested they sleep hidden behind them for the night.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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