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"eon":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": an immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time : age":[
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"I haven't seen him in eons ."
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],
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": a very large division of geologic time usually longer than an era":[
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"the Archean eon"
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],
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": a unit of geologic time equal to one billion years":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8\u0113-\u0259n",
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"\u02c8\u0113-\u02cc\u00e4n"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Sanctions take a comparative eon in the scheme of war or a humanitarian crisis. \u2014 Robin Wright, The New Yorker , 7 Mar. 2022",
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"During this early period, the Archean eon , life was not yet a major planetary player. \u2014 Adam Frank, The Atlantic , 19 Feb. 2022",
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"But for the largest museum of natural history in the world, the year-and-a-half-long closure to the public during the Covid-19 pandemic felt like an eon . \u2014 Nora Mcgreevy, Smithsonian Magazine , 26 May 2021",
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"Twelve years is an eon in information technology time. \u2014 Paul Krugman, Star Tribune , 21 May 2021",
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"Over a year and a half, or a political eon ago, the focal point of our political discourse was a caravan of migrants trekking through Central America and Mexico in the hopes of winning asylum in the United States. \u2014 Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic , 3 June 2020",
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"Over eons , the river carved the Grand Canyon and scattered billions of tons of sediment across its delta, flowing into the Sea of Cortez. \u2014 Ian James, AZCentral.com , 19 Apr. 2020",
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"Its surface is extremely and uniformly red\u2014probably because of organic molecules that formed over eons of steady pummeling by cosmic radiation. \u2014 Lee Billings, Scientific American , 20 Feb. 2020",
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"Hunter expects to hit $6 million in sales by May, eons ahead of its loftiest projections from January. \u2014 Kate Knibbs, Wired , 27 Apr. 2020"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"borrowed from Late Latin ae\u014dn \"age (in the world's history), evil spirit (in Gnosticism),\" borrowed from Greek ai\u1e53n \"lifetime, long period of time, age\" \u2014 more at aye entry 3":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"circa 1642, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-033326"
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}
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}
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