one in a million

Example Sentences

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

From MarketWatch • Mar. 13, 2026

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

"I am beyond devastated... you were one in a million," he wrote on Instagram.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2024

“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