Sample Sentences for
epiphany
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    It doesn't come in a flash, a sudden epiphany.  (source)
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    The feeling—the epiphany—was a strange, one, foreign and familiar at the same time.  (source)
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    As Janice brainstormed aloud how they would save their son, Larry had an epiphany.  (source)
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    But this epiphany occurred only after the intervention of time and misfortune, when my fathers self-satisfied existence had begun to crumble beneath him.  (source)
    epiphany = sudden realization
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    A few weeks with Dad had given me no epiphanies: I still felt caught between a desire to stay with her and a fear that my presence was depriving her of the comforts of old age.  (source)
    epiphanies = sudden realizations
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    But one day I had an epiphany.  (source)
    epiphany = sudden realization
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    Find someone else to endure your frivolous poppycock and threadbare 'epiphanies.'  (source)
    epiphanies = important and sudden realizations
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    "Well, your grades obviously aren't bad because you can't pick this stuff up or because you are stupid, you are just not working hard enough," my mother said, her voice rising into the epiphany.  (source)
    epiphany = sudden realization
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    A place riddled with epiphanies, that's what it was.  (source)
    epiphanies = sudden realizations
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    We looked at each other and just laughed; everything was hysterically funny, even the playground slide was smiling at us, and at some point, deep in the night, when we were climbing on the jungle gym and showers of sparks were flying out of our mouths, I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.  (source)
    epiphany = sudden realization
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    There are no scenes, no breakdowns, no epiphanies.  (source)
    epiphanies = sudden realizations
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    Seeing this woman at the commissary, he finally went through a belated, dim-witted epiphany, not a brilliant light shining down from heaven, more like the brown glimmer of a half-dead flashlight from the top of a stepladder: Juanita hadn't really changed much at all since those days, just grown into herself.  (source)
    epiphany = sudden realization
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    It was the letter I had tried but failed to write in the past, the kind that Noah had once suggested, and though I'd once found the very idea impossible, the epiphanies of the past year, and particularly the past week, lent my words an uncharacteristic grace.  (source)
    epiphanies = sudden realizations
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