one in a million
Example Sentences
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Even so, he pegs the odds of $2-a-gallon gasoline as a national average at one in a million.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 26, 2025
"They are the show, Tess and Claudia," she said "They are the ultimate professionals and they are one in a million, both of them - two in a million rather - and they are diamonds."
From BBC • Oct. 31, 2025
“Even if one in a million objects is from an extraterrestrial origin, it could inform us that we are not alone and be the biggest scientific discovery in human history,” Loeb said.
From Salon • Jan. 25, 2025
“Chordoma is a one in a million cancer,” Gary Sinise wrote Tuesday, sharing information about the disease.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2024
“I’ve always been interested in your cases. I studied them in medical school. Only one in a million such mutations prove beneficial. You’re remarkable people.”
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
