Example Sentences

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These Knicks are a serious team, shrewdly constructed, and this may be the biggest compliment anyone’s given them in eons.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 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

Harold Prince’s 1979 Broadway premiere, starring Len Cariou and Angela Lansbury, seems like eons ago in terms of creative possibility.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026

For eons, most investors treated hot stocks the same way.

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

Annabeth gazed around the hut, trying to imagine how many eons Damasen had been exiled here—slaying the drakon, collecting its bones and hide and meat, knowing it would attack again the next day.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan