epiphany

Example Sentences

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

From Slate • Apr. 6, 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

Is England's approach on this fourth day in Adelaide a welcome epiphany that their previous over-aggression was misplaced, or a frustrating reveal they were always capable of playing in this fashion?

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2025

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

It was an epiphany: scientists had been trying for decades to grow immortal cell lines using normal cells instead of malignant ones, but it had never worked.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot