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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
Some rules of grammar may shift every eon or so, but you can bet the bank that this one will never change: Subject and verb must agree.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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
What meaning did individual human life have in a vast universe that had existed for incalculable eons?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 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
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