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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
During the Hadean eon, while the molten Earth cooled and life emerged, the Sun provided approximately 25% less radiant energy than it does now.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Even Courtney does at times, and they’ve been friends for an eon and a day.
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
The Los Angeles River was still pretty much what it had been for eons: a wandering river of the West, often nothing more than damp wetlands in summer, but quickening into rushwaters in winter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
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
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
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
Over the eons of unhurried time that is nature’s, life reached an adjustment with destructive forces as selection weeded out the less adaptable and only the most resistant survived.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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