epiphany
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With this intimate, painful epiphany, the show’s larger parable about obligingly submitting to ahistorical ignorance is blunted with a spiritually benevolent ideal.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
I didn’t achieve Thoreau’s epiphany; didn’t learn that the beaches I walked were a natural manual for how to live a good life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
“It was like a religious epiphany for some people. For years, they were driving past these things,” Kirby said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
Keys and Mulder said in their earlier study that reinsurance -- insurers themselves buying protection against risk -- has bumped up premiums as firms experienced a "climate epiphany."
From Barron's ● May 11, 2026
It doesn’t come in a flash, a sudden epiphany.
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
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
If we kill busywork, we risk forfeiting the epiphanies that sometimes occur while doing easy, repetitive tasks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
Domestic drama, with its psychological epiphanies and sentimental resolutions, repelled him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2025
Her compositions are more propulsive and melodic, capturing the romance of youth and tiny epiphanies of life lived raw and in the moment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025
"See, we don't even know each other. I have to find out if I believe in epiphanies, Will."
From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan
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