How to Use one in a million in a Sentence
one in a million
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However, the odds of a person being struck are less than one in a million.
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Latoya Gayle,
PEOPLE,
30 June 2026
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However, the chance of getting struck by lightning is about one in a million.
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Sacbee.com,
8 Apr. 2026
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Dion has stiff-person syndrome, a condition that affects one in a million people.
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Alejandra Gularte,
Vulture,
23 Mar. 2026
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There is a one in a million chance — that hyperbole is fair — of finding a piece of grass that isn’t up to snuff for the Bos family.
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Joshua Kloke,
New York Times,
23 June 2026
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If one life is saved in a population of one million people, each individual’s risk of death might fall by one in a million.
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James Broughel,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Nevertheless, Lyons insists that the odds of Kennedy running for president are one in a million.
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Tom Bartlett,
The Atlantic,
5 Apr. 2026
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The approval is welcome news for the roughly one in a million Americans with the rare genetic condition.
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O. Rose Broderick,
STAT,
10 Mar. 2026
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Now the agency has approved its use for cerebral folate deficiency—a rare genetic condition that may affect fewer than one in a million people, though its true prevalence is unknown.
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Claire Cameron,
Scientific American,
11 Mar. 2026
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Sources differ on how uncommon sheep sextuplets are, with O'Connor putting the number around 1 in 1,000 and some agricultural websites placing it at one in a million or higher.
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ABC News,
27 Apr. 2026
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Sources differ on how uncommon sheep sextuplets are, with O’Connor putting the number around 1 in 1,000 and some agricultural websites placing it at one in a million or higher.
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Amanda Swinhart,
Fortune,
27 Apr. 2026
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