eons ago
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The internet boom and the rise of trendy handheld devices and gadgets that came in a rainbow array of colorways feels like eons ago now.
From Salon • May 30, 2026
The dot-com bubble was nearing its peak 26 years ago, and on Wall Street, where most careers are not even measured in decades, that’s eons ago.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 31, 2025
One theory holds that, eons ago, several apocalyptic eruptions set off a runaway greenhouse effect on Venus, turning it from a temperate, waterlogged world into an arid desert of burned glass.
From New York Times • May 27, 2024
Over time, in the light, Peterson expects the light-using cells to eventually replace the unaltered ones just as early light users might have replaced their competitors in nature eons ago.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 18, 2023
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
