haystack
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“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
"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
By navigating there through fog, snow, and winter seas, Worsley had found the needle in the haystack.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
“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
Armpit’s economics teacher once told the class about a donkey standing exactly halfway between two identical haystacks.
From "Small Steps" by Louis Sachar
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