aeons

variants or eons
plural of aeon
as in ages
a long or seemingly long period of time it's been aeons since I saw a movie at the multiplex glaciers that formed aeons ago

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Recent Examples of aeons Remember Mass Effect, the nearly 20 year old series everyone likes that has been doing this kind of thing for eons? Paul Tassi, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025 If scientists can do that, however, next-generation geothermal power could supply clean energy for eons. Brent Crane, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2025 Despite the intervening eons, this pattern should still be etched across the cosmos in the spatial distributions of galaxies. Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 28 Feb. 2025 Though the global changes of the Cryogenic happened eons ago, Kirkland sees parallels with the wide-scale climate changes of today. Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2025 This modest study of unlikely community found at the end of the world — or damn near close enough — gains a more mythic sweep as the island is faced with a perilous storm, expected to bring destructive flooding on a scale not seen in eons, and this ragtag crew must weather it together. Guy Lodge, Variety, 20 Feb. 2025
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Noun
  • The museum offers school field trip opportunities for all ages and Johnson tells me that field trip scholarships are available for schools through funding from the Tyson Family Foundation.
    Carin Schoppmeyer, Arkansas Online, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Deaths among those ages 5 to 19 also increased in Eastern Europe, high-income North America and the Caribbean, and among adolescents and young adults in sub-Saharan Africa, due to infectious diseases and unintentional injuries.
    Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
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  • Released in 2002, Real Women Have Curves starred a then-teenage Ferrera as Ana, a young Los Angeles woman who aspires to go to college, but whose mother (the late Lupe Ontiveros) longs for her daughter to stay home and lead a traditional life abiding by cultural standards.
    Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Oct. 2025
  • There were handoffs on third-and-longs.
    Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 29 Sep. 2025

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