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[mil-yuhn] / ˈmɪl jən /


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The ride-hailing company Lyft will pay $272.5 million to settle a California wage-and-hour lawsuit, marking the largest such settlement in the state’s history.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Rivera separately faces a federal case in Washington involving allegations that he received more than $5.5 million to lobby on behalf of a Venezuelan businessman targeted by US sanctions.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

The amount of Social Security benefits that the Education Department collected increased from $16.2 million in 2001 to $429.7 million in 2019, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

The Group of Seven major economies on Friday agreed to release 100 million barrels of crude oil and fuel from their emergency stocks and forgo export restrictions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

I want answers and reasons and explanations and a million other things.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

But it was humans who decided that spending millions of dollars on AI agents to pursue this particular sign-manipulation exercise was important.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

The plaintiffs say they have suffered losses amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars from wildfires, flooding and other weather extremes and are seeking compensation.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Games between the cricket-mad nations typically attract huge television audiences of hundreds of millions back home.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

His Livestrong Foundation was wildly successful, selling millions of yellow wristbands to raise money to support fellow cancer sufferers.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

And so, the millions of residents of Tohoku went about their business that afternoon in March as they had on all of the others before.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland




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