one in a million

Idioms  

1. Also,. Extraordinary, rare, as in She's the kindest soul—she's one in a million, or This ring is one in a thousand. All these terms are hyperbolic.

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Example Sentences

“So we’re talking about a time period in which, conservatively, there were over 80 million votes cast in Louisiana, and they found 74 potential cases of non-citizens voting — so less than one in a million.”

From Salon

The detonation of a military round over the 5 Freeway during an exercise at Camp Pendleton in October was a “one in a million” malfunction that investigators have struggled to explain, according to a report from the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times

Wendy Williams, 61, lost her steel worker husband Steven, 56, to a "one in a million" rare cancer in 2019.

From BBC

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

From MarketWatch

In Ismir, they met Isra'a, a then-11-year-old girl whose family had left Aleppo as bombs rained down on the city, and who would become the subject of their documentary "One In A Million," which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday.

From Barron's

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