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But it would be three long years — a veritable eon during that pre-MTV era — before Harrison released the LP’s worthy successor.
From Salon ● Nov. 15, 2024
WIMBLEDON, England — The streak lived for 132 days or, in tennis time, an eon.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 2, 2022
When I started reporting on elections an eon ago, smartphones didn’t exist and a desktop was a typewriter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2022
For more than an eon, the landmass formed a nearly unbroken blanket over a large swath of the planet, trapping in the heat deep below the surface.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 11, 2021
They’ve been friends for an eon, and technically, I’m the interloper, so no big deal.
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
Their interests lie in both the now and the then, stretching eons into the past to track where we’ve come from to find out where we’re going next.
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2026
But Villaraigosa left City Hall in 2013 — eons ago in the world of politics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026
As Lippman puts it, "It's a new window into the evolution of life across eons and a new opportunity to more efficiently engineer or fine-tune crop traits."
From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 2026
Tanking’s been around for eons, though league commissioner Adam Silver said recently it has gotten “worse.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026
The selective breeding of the strongest, smartest, “fittest” humans—unnatural selection—Galton imagined, could achieve over just a few decades what nature had been attempting for eons.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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