epiphany

Example Sentences

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

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Descheduling won’t arrive as a grand cultural epiphany, but as administrative cleanup—aligning the law with a world that enforcement conceded long ago.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

Wardlaw looks like a skinny Santa Claus with long white hair and beard, but he was dressed somberly Saturday night, like a dapper Scrooge after his epiphany.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025

After his roadside epiphany, Mr. Nicolson “slowly developed a double thought: not only to learn something of birds but to make a place,” as he puts it, “that might be accommodating and receptive to them.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

For joe, the moment of epiphany came on the eighty-sixth floor of the new Empire State Building.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown