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one in a million
Idioms and Phrases
Also, one in a thousand or billion . 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.Example Sentences
The kind words, even the public gushing, were expected and appropriate, especially considering that he was the one in a million who turned his personality around from teenage thug and bully to savvy businessman and humanitarian.
"We were told that his illness was one in a million. Other parents were learning to change diapers but I was learning how to change chemotherapy ports and IVs."
“When you start analyzing tens of millions of vaccinations for COVID-19, you start to see side effects that pop up at the level of one in a million,†Moore said.
“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.
"He was one in a million. You won't find anybody else like him again."
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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