How to Use epiphany in a Sentence
epiphany
noun
- Seeing her father again when she was an adult was an epiphany that changed her whole view of her childhood.
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As if there was something of loss and epiphany at the same time.
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Ed Meza,
Variety,
13 Mar. 2023
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One yearns for the breakthrough, the epiphany, the point, that will make sense of it all, and thus cure it.
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Lauren Oyler,
The New Yorker,
9 Mar. 2024
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And then in the mid-’90s, when web search became a thing, there was this epiphany.
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Steven Levy,
Wired,
19 May 2021
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The truth is that Hageman didn't have some sort of epiphany about Trump.
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Chris Cillizza,
CNN,
2 Oct. 2021
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Strauss has a full opera to prepare you for this epiphany.
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Los Angeles Times,
27 Feb. 2023
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With this epiphany came a sort of release and a strange calmness.
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Rachel Deloache Williams,
The Hive,
13 Apr. 2018
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Within just a few years, though, Ms. Gump had an epiphany.
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Sam Roberts,
New York Times,
26 Apr. 2018
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Boyce soon had his own epiphany moment on a city street en route to the subway.
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Susan Miller,
USA TODAY,
4 June 2019
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The 29-year-old researcher said his work was sparked by an epiphany in his life a few years ago.
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Author: William Wan,
Anchorage Daily News,
18 June 2018
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By 2013, Finkelstein had an epiphany: the face of the enemy should be George Soros.
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Andrew Marantz,
The New Yorker,
27 June 2022
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Don Draper’s newly sober, bizarre epiphany at the end of Mad Men that soft drinks can unite the world.
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Mike Scalise,
Harper's BAZAAR,
26 May 2023
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There was no epiphany, just dirt, the vast curtain between this realm and the other.
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Aria Aber,
The New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2021
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But looking at the classic Porsche gave Bradley an epiphany.
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Laura Burstein,
Robb Report,
3 Dec. 2021
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In that instant, an epiphany struck like a lightning bolt.
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Javier Hasse,
Forbes,
17 July 2023
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Life began again behind bars with an epiphany in the prison yard.
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Michael M. Phillips and Brianna Abbott,
WSJ,
25 Sep. 2020
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That was a pivotal moment for Tim — an epiphany for him.
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Chris Willman,
Variety,
18 Dec. 2023
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But six months after the workshop, Poindexter had an epiphany: The prints didn’t need to be small.
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Avery Schuyler Nunn,
Smithsonian Magazine,
22 June 2023
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But old-man fist-shaking leads to a touching epiphany this time.
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Washington Post,
10 May 2021
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In one of the show’s later seasons, Donaghy has an epiphany.
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Rory Smith,
New York Times,
8 Dec. 2023
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This one has a tang and texture and rare sense of everyday epiphany.
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Mark Feeney,
BostonGlobe.com,
20 Oct. 2022
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Much of his epiphany was seen through improvements in high-speed video.
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Tom Verducci,
SI.com,
9 Sep. 2019
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The word epiphany itself doesn’t have anything to do with gift-giving.
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Time,
6 Jan. 2023
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The Beatles were an epiphany, the first time any of us saw a real band that sang and played their own stuff.
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Marco Della Cava,
USA TODAY,
7 Apr. 2023
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This thought was like a stoned epiphany from college, except I hadn’t been stoned in more than a decade.
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Leslie Jamison,
The New Yorker,
15 Jan. 2024
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Those words led to an immediate epiphany for the singer.
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Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
21 Sep. 2023
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Perhaps there’s a reader who will find epiphany in this.
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Rumaan Alam,
The New Republic,
23 June 2020
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The hermit, enmeshed in solitude for long enough, has an epiphany.
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Colin Dickey,
Longreads,
30 Mar. 2022
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Egan seems to assert that memory and epiphany are linked, and that the point of returning to the past isn’t to have again.
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Katy Waldman,
The New Yorker,
13 Dec. 2022
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A few years into their friendship, Kaleka had an epiphany of sorts and picked up the phone.
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Harmeet Kaur,
CNN,
30 Oct. 2022
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