one in a million
Example Sentences
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"Preservation like this is truly one in a million," Cole added.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 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
Sinese, 68, said the "one in a million" cancer originates in the spine and affects around 300 people in the US each year.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2024
“Well, she ended up getting brain cancer—the exact kind she was doing the study on. The probability of that was like one in a million or something. How’s that for a coincidence?”
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
