How to Use sextillion in a Sentence
sextillion
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There are likely at least sextillions of these objects flying through interstellar space, far outnumbering the stars and planets of our galaxy.
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Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
26 Aug. 2025
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By 2028, global data creation is projected to exceed 400 zettabytes—with a single zettabyte equalling one sextillion bytes of data.
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Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
7 Jan. 2026
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This story of star-formation is ubiquitous throughout our natural history, with sextillions of stars populating our observable Universe today, with nuclear fusion providing the sustaining energy for most modern stars.
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Big Think,
20 Apr. 2026
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The government said that one swab was 120 sextillion times more likely to include DNA from Kepner and Hudson than from Kepner and an unknown, unrelated person.
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Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
3 June 2026
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By the time the ripples from GW150914 arrived at Earth, the size of those ripples, which translates into a quantity known as the strain amplitude for a gravitational wave detector, was down to 10-21, or one part in one sextillion.
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Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
17 Sep. 2025
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