epiphany
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It was at that point that I had my only useful epiphany on this topic.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
"I had an epiphany when I met you and started working with you," Madonna wrote in her post, alongside a video of herself standing beside Orbit to accept a Grammy Award.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
That epiphany led him to an uncomfortable conclusion: “I became very convinced that they would become extremely powerful.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
Then, one day, while cleaning out my mom’s 1970 blue Chevy Impala, I had an epiphany.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026
But she had not had a bold epiphany and there was no cause; it was simply that layer after layer of discontent had settled in her, and formed a mass that now propelled her.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Either way, know that nothing in this hour expands beyond territory he hasn’t covered – including, and namely, any epiphanies about responsibility.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026
I’m a person who creates characters, imbues them with problems and makes up situations for them to struggle through toward emotional epiphanies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026
Citing Oedipus, Macbeth and Raskolnikov, he points out that literary epiphanies always come too late.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
“We grow, have epiphanies, become better, understand our flaws”—a notion that expresses the sense of hopefulness reflected in Ms. King’s novels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
There are no scenes, no breakdowns, no epiphanies.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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