1
: a stack of hay
2
: a vertical standing wave in turbulent river waters
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He was found hidden in a haystack in his neighbor's home in El Guedid about 650 feet away from his family’s home in the same town, according to authorities, BBC, AFP and local newspaper El Khabar reported.
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Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 16 May 2024
The artwork heading to the auction block is one of Monet’s later haystack paintings.
—Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2024
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.
—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
Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 16 May 2024
The artwork heading to the auction block is one of Monet’s later haystack paintings.
—Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2024
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.
—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
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“Haystack.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/haystack. Accessed 23 May. 2024.
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haystack
noun
hay·stack
-ˌstak 
: a stack of hay
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