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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
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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