as in forever
a long or seemingly long period of time
where have you been? I haven't seen you in a coon's age!
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Noun
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One way to mess with an option team’s Plan A is to not only stick them with third-and-forevers, but to put them in an early hole, making them throw out of desperation.—
Sean Keeler,
The Denver Post,
14 Sep. 2019 -
Printed with thermochromic ink, the stamp reveals a second image of the moon when a finger is pressed to it, and a sheet of 16 Forever stamps features a map of the eclipse path.—
Meg Jones,
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
18 Aug. 2017
Noun
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What a child like Opal longs for is community and feeling embraced and loved.—
Mary Ann Grossmann,
Twin Cities,
10 Aug. 2025
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Saint-Saëns long had the reputation of being too expert for his own good, spinning emptily elegant spiderwebs of notes.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The August 2025 full moon is not a rare super blue moon.—
Tiffany Acosta,
AZCentral.com,
2 Aug. 2025
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This spectacle will have a window of ideal visibility through February 21. March 14: Total lunar eclipse Sometimes, full moons get called colorful names that are a bit of a fake-out: A blue moon isn’t really blue, and a pink moon isn’t really pink.—
Carlyn Kranking,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 Dec. 2024
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Their work in the market has considerably lowered the age of the squad and added more dynamism to a team that had started to look one-paced.—
Jordan Campbell,
New York Times,
15 Aug. 2025
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Attorneys for the Commonwealth drew timelines on a large easel pad of white paper with each victims’ ages and corresponding school years to help jurors understand when the allegations took place.—
Stephanie Kuzydym,
The Courier-Journal,
15 Aug. 2025
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“Coon's age.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coon%27s%20age. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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