1
: a stack of hay
2
: a vertical standing wave in turbulent river waters
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Vermilion plays up beautiful speckled radicchio from Karma Farm in Maryland, in a haystack of a salad, with local sheep’s milk cheese and ruddy country ham.
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Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
Electronic health records have led to even larger haystacks that stymie needle-hunting clinicians.
—Katie Palmer and Casey Ross, STAT, 13 Mar. 2024
Finding the perfect pair of jeans can often feel like searching for a needle in a proverbial denim haystack.
—Jamie Allison Sanders, Peoplemag, 18 Feb. 2024
The challenge before philanthropies is to identify and support those needles in haystacks.
—Mark Malloch-Brown, Foreign Affairs, 15 Jan. 2024
But Baudelaire’s is a purely literary project, and the painters, including even Manet, his supposed model, would actually return again and again to single subjects: a nude in the bath, a plate of asparagus, a haystack.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
Here's a five-step strategy upper management can deploy to ensure that the quest for purpose isn’t akin to finding a needle in a corporate haystack.
—Ira Wolfe, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
Today, that haystack vigil is marked by a Berkshires-quarried marble obelisk topped by an orb, a symbol of the global missionary vision of the young Puritan men who huddled there — for whom neither New England nor the New World were sufficient.
—Andrew Doran, National Review, 12 Nov. 2023
Locating specific objects across such a wide swath of seafloor has been likened to searching for the smallest needles in the largest haystack.
—Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
Electronic health records have led to even larger haystacks that stymie needle-hunting clinicians.
—Katie Palmer and Casey Ross, STAT, 13 Mar. 2024
Finding the perfect pair of jeans can often feel like searching for a needle in a proverbial denim haystack.
—Jamie Allison Sanders, Peoplemag, 18 Feb. 2024
The challenge before philanthropies is to identify and support those needles in haystacks.
—Mark Malloch-Brown, Foreign Affairs, 15 Jan. 2024
But Baudelaire’s is a purely literary project, and the painters, including even Manet, his supposed model, would actually return again and again to single subjects: a nude in the bath, a plate of asparagus, a haystack.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
Here's a five-step strategy upper management can deploy to ensure that the quest for purpose isn’t akin to finding a needle in a corporate haystack.
—Ira Wolfe, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
Today, that haystack vigil is marked by a Berkshires-quarried marble obelisk topped by an orb, a symbol of the global missionary vision of the young Puritan men who huddled there — for whom neither New England nor the New World were sufficient.
—Andrew Doran, National Review, 12 Nov. 2023
Locating specific objects across such a wide swath of seafloor has been likened to searching for the smallest needles in the largest haystack.
—Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
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haystack
noun
hay·stack
-ˌstak 
: a stack of hay
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