million

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Recent Examples of million The local government and group representatives believe the move would put Wyandotte County at the epicenter of agricultural education and events and bring millions in revenue annually. Sofi Zeman, Kansas City Star, 18 Apr. 2025 When the option was first awarded, NWSL teams were selling for low single-digit millions; by the time it was exercised, those numbers had soared. Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 18 Apr. 2025 Panama’s top auditor accused CK Hutchison Holdings of owing the government hundreds of millions, and breaching an agreement to share 10 percent of net income with the Panamanian government as part of its 25-year contract extension signed in 1997. Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 8 Apr. 2025 Between them, the two robots took 715,000 photographs along with millions of laser measurements, which were pieced together to create a virtual reconstruction of the doomed ship containing astonishing detail. Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for million
Recent Examples of Synonyms for million
Noun
  • And that means not just asking the right questions, but doing it differently from the others zillion candidates who read books on interviewing, memorize 50 questions, and regurgitate them robotically.
    Eli Amdur, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Even if this wasn’t executed perfectly, the season gets a zillion points just for trying.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Lamont noted the recent losses of trillions of dollars in the stock market, even after Trump’s 90-day pause on his tariffs generated a huge, one-day spike in stock prices before falling back and up again in some of the most volatile days in stock market history.
    Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 13 Apr. 2025
  • All of that chaos, trillions of dollars evaporated—for nothing at all.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The gazillion dollar question is what the administration intends to do with it.
    Kelly Evans, CNBC, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Instead, Barkley again ran roughshod over the porous Rams defense for another gazillion.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • But my mom loved these showy trees with the colorful crepe-papery flowers, as did my grandmother, and about a billion-jillion other SoCal residents who have planted them in yards, around businesses and along many city streets.
    Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2025
  • But America, with its jillion colleges and universities, dotting the land?
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 7 July 2023
Noun
  • He’s made a kazillion dollars since then.
    James Hibberd, EW.com, 10 Aug. 2020
  • After what felt like a million kazillion years of waiting, the live-action leads of Aladdin were finally announced last weekend.
    Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 17 July 2017

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“Million.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/million. Accessed 1 May. 2025.

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