epiphany

Example Sentences

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He previously told The Times his epiphany came during a road trip in 1979, when he rescued a stray black dog in apparent distress in the Angeles National Forest.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026

Wardlaw looks like a skinny Santa Claus with long white hair and beard, but he was dressed somberly Saturday night, like a dapper Scrooge after his epiphany.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025

His just-in-time epiphany leads him to do the very thing he has spent his whole career eschewing: substitute a simple calculus of immediate military advantage for legalistic code.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

He visits a cable landing station in Tonga expecting a technological epiphany, but finds only “air-conditioned disappointment” in a concrete closet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025

Penelope was well aware of her location—particularly after all those navigational studies with the children—but to Lady Constance the news seemed to have the makings of yet another epiphany.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood