one in a million
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"Preservation like this is truly one in a million," Cole added.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 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
In a statement, Ms Francis' family said: "Wendy will be hugely missed; she was one in a million and much-loved."
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 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
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