How to Use quadrillion in a Sentence

quadrillion

noun
  • And all of this from a distance of more than a quadrillion miles!
    — Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2017
  • All four quadrillion connections in the human brain will be mapped.
    — Eli Amdur, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
  • The mass of the Higgs should be some thousands of quadrillion times as high.
    — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 19 June 2017
  • The chance of winning all four, per the suit, was less than one in a quadrillion to the fourth power.
    — The Editors, National Review, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Cicchetti’s p-value of one in a quadrillion puts us all to shame.
    — Benjamin Mazer, Wired, 11 Dec. 2020
  • The crystals can hold quadrillions of atoms instead of just a few, so a laser could rule out wavelengths at a rapid clip.
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 Sep. 2024
  • There are trillions, quadrillions, and so forth of longer number candidates.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Dec. 2019
  • In terms of sheer mass, that works out to around a quadrillion, or thousand trillion, tons of diamond.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 17 July 2018
  • And some have magnetic fields many times stronger than the norm — quadrillions of times the strength of the sun’s magnetic field.
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
  • To put that into perspective, that is a quadrillion times faster than the blink of an eye, which takes a third of a second.
    — WIRED, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Some researchers estimate that there are 17 quadrillion flies on the planet.
    — Howard Schneider, WSJ, 28 May 2021
  • Japan’s central-government debt is about to surpass a quadrillion yen, or nearly $10 trillion.
    — Marcus Walker, WSJ, 12 July 2021
  • Last month, scientists showed that there are likely quadrillions of diamonds below the Earth's surface.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2018
  • The core itself is 1 quadrillion to 1 sextillion kilograms, which is a little lighter than Mercury.
    — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 4 Apr. 2019
  • The Kivu swarm, with its three new lineages of Ebola, may amount to about one or two quadrillion infective particles of the virus.
    — Richard Preston, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2019
  • The broods will emerge peacefully, but Cooley said hundreds of trillions – or even quadrillions – of cicadas are expected.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2024
  • According to court documents, the chance that the DNA is not his is one in 180 quadrillion.
    — Megan Molteni, WIRED, 17 June 2019
  • Magnetars have magnetic fields about a quadrillion times stronger than the Earth's and a billion times stronger than the best that humanity can achieve.
    — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 17 June 2022
  • At the lightest, the particles could be more than a quadrillion times lighter than even the ultralight dark matter Antypas is looking for.
    — Sophia Chen, Wired, 2 Aug. 2022
  • There is no ultimate limit of the number of Dogecoins minted, and the cap for Shibu Inus is set at one quadrillion coins.
    — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Dimming the sun is not as easy as flipping a switch, and requires the release of a quadrillion nearly invisible particles that must be tailored to just the right size.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 12 Oct. 2024
  • The world's total net wealth has hit $431 trillion, nearly half a quadrillion dollars, and over a quarter of it is controlled by millionaires.
    — Ollie A Williams, Forbes, 10 June 2021
  • The least massive stars take an enormous amount of time to burn through their fuel, living as red dwarfs and dying as white dwarfs, before fading away to black after roughly a quadrillion years pass.
    — Big Think, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The bowl cupped a spherical cloud of iron that acted as a radiator for the waste heat emitted by Paradise’s quadrillions of computing modules.
    — Karl Schroeder, IEEE Spectrum, 24 Feb. 2024
  • If none of the superhard materials work out, scientists can start to look for ways to get the quadrillions of diamonds buried within the Earth's surface out.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Human brains operate on the equivalent of about 20 watts, performing quadrillions of operations per second.
    — Rachyl Jones, semafor.com, 26 Nov. 2025
  • To googologists, number lovers who strive to define and name ever-larger numbers, utility is not the point, and even Bryson’s 100 quadrillion is small change.
    — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 June 2020
  • The odds of winning both jackpots are one in 75 quadrillion -- that's 15 zeros -- according to data scientists at Allstate.
    — CBS News, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The odds of creating some of the rarer exotic isotopes can be on the order of 1 in a quadrillion – roughly the same odds as winning back-to-back Mega Millions jackpots.
    — Artemis Spyrou, The Conversation, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Years of heavy money printing has devalued the currency so dramatically that the government’s latest budget ran into the quadrillions of rials.
    — Mostafa Salem, CNN Money, 30 Dec. 2025

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