epiphany

Example Sentences

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Shortly into the review, the team members had their epiphany.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

At the same time, Californians themselves were feeling an environmental epiphany.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

When he visited her grave, he saw a pile of stones and had an epiphany as he realised that, when gravediggers make space for a coffin, they don't return the stones they have displaced.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026

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

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