haystack
noun
a stack of hay with a conical or ridged top, built up in the mowed field so as to prevent the accumulation of moisture and promote drying.
haystacks
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pluralof haystack.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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I’ve used AI to summarize vast swaths of documents and pull needles from giant haystacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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
Their houses and barns and haystacks, and the unsuspected secret passages inside the big farmhouses, were called depots and stations.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
