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
My creation resembled a bulky hamantaschen more than a talisman for a life-changing epiphany.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Sarris recalls a similar epiphany he had speaking with McKay.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 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
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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
Daphne and Eddie bond within seconds of reuniting, and their conversations are marked by heartstring-tugging private references and shared epiphanies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 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
There are no scenes, no breakdowns, no epiphanies.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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