one in a million

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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

A Chicago aquarium overcame one in a million odds to raise a warty frogfish.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 13, 2026

“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 mean it's one in a million it happens to like this."

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath