aeon
Example Sentences
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So here's another important caveat: If a week is a long time in politics these days, a fortnight is an absolute aeon.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2018
In this new era of oversharing, the 1994 of Four Weddings seems an aeon away.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 13, 2016
The time frame matches Bottke’s model and corresponds to the Archaean aeon.
From Nature ● Apr. 25, 2012
How strange, though, to compare this reasonable piece of entertainment with the sensational impact of that first Shrek film, way back in 2001, an aeon in movie-trend terms.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 1, 2010
Roomy Eternity Casts her schemes rarely, And an aeon allows For each quality and part Of the multitudinous And many-chambered heart.
From Poems Household Edition by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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