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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
When a crystal containing 87Rb atoms formed from the molten surface of the hot, early Earth during the Hadean eon, the number of these atoms at that initial time can be represented as N87Rb,0.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
An hour in Mrs. Ysidro’s AP Calculus was an eon.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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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
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
A diamond, the locksmith reminds himself, is only a piece of carbon compressed in the bowels of the earth for eons and driven to the surface in a volcanic pipe.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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