one in a million
Example Sentences
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Wendy Williams, 61, lost her steel worker husband Steven, 56, to a "one in a million" rare cancer in 2019.
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026
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
We were set to meet at the Hamptons Film Festival, but I got to meet her beautiful daughter, Vicky, who is really just one in a million, just a stunning, wonderful human being.
From Salon • May 9, 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
Even if we change the probability to one in a million for such a predictive dream, we’ll still get huge numbers of them by chance alone in a country the size of the United States.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
