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eon

[ee-uhn, ee-on] / ˈi ən, ˈi ɒn /
NOUN
an age
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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

They’ve been friends for an eon, and technically, I’m the interloper, so no big deal.

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone

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

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

For soil is in part a creation of life, born of a marvelous interaction of life and nonlife long eons ago.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson




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