one in a million
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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
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
“I’ve always been interested in your cases. I studied them in medical school. Only one in a million such mutations prove beneficial. You’re remarkable people.”
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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