epiphany

"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

He didn’t elaborate further, and my own attempt to interview Johnson over this epiphany fell through.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026

Also grieving Gerry is his daughter, Early, whose filial devotion clashes with her revulsion at Gerry’s brutality until her eventual epiphany: “I am my father’s daughter.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Then, one day, while cleaning out my mom’s 1970 blue Chevy Impala, I had an epiphany.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026

Closing Sohrab’s door, I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the mid­dle of the night.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

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

Investigating four centuries of British and American data, Mr. Goodspeed concludes that the apparent business cycles that economists have spent careers documenting are “apophanies” rather than epiphanies: illusions of pattern imposed on noise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

Citing Oedipus, Macbeth and Raskolnikov, he points out that literary epiphanies always come too late.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025

By the time the film gets around to revealing its more human side — epiphanies gained, lessons learned — it’s too little, too late.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2025

And in all that time, no one has ever asked a "random question" about "epiphanies" for "no reason."

From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan