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a sudden realization — especially one of importanceLess commonly, as a proper noun Epiphany commemorates on January 6 the realization that Jesus was Son of God.
- The struggle led to an epiphany.
epiphany = sudden realization
- She described it as a religious epiphany.
- I had an epiphany that changed the course of my life.
- Edward refused to let me go for a second, dragging me along with him as he hunted up Jasper and then Carlisle to tell them of my epiphany.Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse
- It doesn't come in a flash, a sudden epiphany.Nicola Yoon -- Everything, Everything
- A kind of epiphany filled her.Stephen King -- Cujo
- A slow awakening as opposed to an epiphany.Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
- —with enough of an upturn at the tail end to make it sound like surprise, or like what I said has triggered a minor epiphany in him.Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
- I think I'm having an epiphany here.Stephenie Meyer -- New Moon
- He knew not from where the epiphany came.Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
- Our eyes locked in one of those shining moments of epiphany.James Patterson -- 1st to Die
- But one day I had an epiphany.Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner
- For a moment, Langdon was back in Westminster Abbey, standing at Newton's pyramidical tomb, where he had experienced a similar epiphany.Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
- A place riddled with epiphanies, that's what it was.Don DeLillo -- Underworld
- But this epiphany occurred only after the intervention of time and misfortune, when my fathers self-satisfied existence had begun to crumble beneath him.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- Later a minor epiphany was ours when we discovered that she had a dog tooth—a charming one to be sure—but a dog tooth nonetheless.Toni Morrison -- The Bluest Eye
- Find someone else to endure your frivolous poppycock and threadbare 'epiphanies.'Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
- It was in Philadelphia in the mid-1980s that I had an epiphany.Steve Lopez -- The Soloist
- As Janice brainstormed aloud how they would save their son, Larry had an epiphany.Eric Blehm -- Fearless
- Now, it seemed she would only have a few seconds, and in that realization came her epiphany.Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
epiphany = sudden realization
epiphany = sudden realization
epiphany = sudden realization
epiphany = sudden realization
epiphany = sudden realization
epiphany = sudden realization
epiphany = sudden realization
epiphany = sudden realization
epiphany = sudden realization
epiphany = sudden realization
epiphany = sudden realization
epiphany = sudden realization
epiphanies = sudden realizations
epiphany = sudden realization
epiphany = sudden realization
epiphanies = important and sudden realizations
epiphany = sudden realization
epiphany = sudden realization
epiphany = sudden realization
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