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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
Purines and pyrimidines decompose at high temperature, and Earth was bombarded by meteors and comets during the Hadean eon.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
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
For eons, most investors treated hot stocks the same way.
From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026
Quantum computers are seen as a critical next-generation technology because they can quickly perform computations that would take today’s computers eons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
Five years can seem like eons in the life of a K-pop star, but when P1Harmony burst onto the scene in dark aplomb back in October 2020, it was the thick of the pandemic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025
The universe may forget us, but our light will brighten the darkness for eons after we’ve departed this world.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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