one in a million
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"Luke is one in a million, I threw everything at him," Price told Sky Sports.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
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
“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
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