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
Charity AHC UK said it is an ultra-rare neurodevelopmental disease, which only affects one in a million.
From BBC • Jan. 20, 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
“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
"I mean it's one in a million it happens to like this."
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
