million

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Recent Examples of million That will probably be hundreds of millions of dollars, Mager says. Jon Hamilton, NPR, 30 June 2025 Despite hiccups, including an accounting fraud scandal, and $475 million in losses last year as the company poured hundreds of millions of dollars into coffee beans, store rent and other costs, Luckin's profit margins have rapidly ballooned. Anne Marie D. Lee, CBS News, 30 June 2025 The Hartford and the Waterbury lines, which have received millions in state investments to upgrade infrastructure and service, have exceeded pre-pandemic ridership levels. Janhavi Munde, Hartford Courant, 19 June 2025 The bridge alone would cost millions of dollars and state funding for trail projects is already competitive. Natalia Jaramillo, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for million
Recent Examples of Synonyms for million
Noun
  • That said, 2028 is a zillion political light years and countless news cycles away.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2025
  • That depends on your tolerance for the sight and sound of zillions of winged bugs appearing at once, settling in trees, getting crunched underfoot, and often splooching against your windshield.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • Several holdouts were in attendance, including Sens. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Mike Lee (R-UT), whose opposition is rooted in projections that the legislation will swell the national debt by trillions of dollars over the next decade.
    Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 26 June 2025
  • These policies have saved trillions of dollars and millions of lives.
    Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • What faster way to rope in a gazillion followers than to sneak into your home studio, turn on the cameras and leak the sure cure for male baldness?
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 28 Apr. 2025
  • The gazillion dollar question is what the administration intends to do with it.
    Kelly Evans, CNBC, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The Nets will have full Bird rights on him in addition to their jillions in cap space.
    John Hollinger, New York Times, 17 June 2025
  • 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
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 5 Jul. 2025.

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