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[mil-yuhn] / ˈmɪl jən /


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Policyholders would be on the hook to pay for anything above $500 million.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 20, 2026

Every Bitcoin transaction is public, and the number of Bitcoin that will ever circulate has been arbitrarily capped at 21 million.

From Slate Sep. 20, 2026

California—one of the few states that reimburse victims—distributed millions of replacement chip-and-tap cards last year, using $76.5 million in federal and state funds for the upgrades.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 20, 2026

Instead, they moved more than $300 million out of the system.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 20, 2026

The World Health Organization has provided this multidrug therapy worldwide free of cost since 1981, treating about sixteen million people over the past forty years.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

If he’d found an asset in Bitcoin that brought such reliable returns, why was he looking to share his scheme with millions and millions of retail investors?

From Slate Sep. 20, 2026

Last fall, Polymarket was in talks with the musician Drake about an agreement in the tens of millions of dollars, according to people familiar with the talks.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 20, 2026

That aspiration is shared by millions of Indian families.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2026

Under the ground and below the ocean’s surface lie millions of miles of glass strands thinner than a human hair.

From MarketWatch Sep. 19, 2026

For years, millions of gallons of sticky molasses had been stored in a building-sized metal tank.

From "I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919" by Lauren Tarshis




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