one in a million
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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
“Chordoma is a one in a million cancer,” Gary Sinise wrote Tuesday, sharing information about the disease.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2024
"I am beyond devastated... you were one in a million," he wrote on Instagram.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2024
"I mean it's one in a million it happens to like this."
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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