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epiphany

How to use epiphany in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for epiphany.

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I had an epiphany one day at some aquarium in NJ.

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Quick take

a divine manifestation

Meaning at a glance

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noun

a divine manifestation

noun

twelve days after Christmas; celebrates the visit of the three wise men to the infant Jesus

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for epiphany.

noun

a divine manifestation

noun

twelve days after Christmas; celebrates the visit of the three wise men to the infant Jesus

Example sentences

1

I had an epiphany one day at some aquarium in NJ.

2

Maybe this is my personal epiphany, the point where I turn and say "hey, this stuff isn't cool anymore".

3

This week I had an epiphany when dealing with both Google and Microsoft on support issues.

4

Sounds like the original author had his epiphany 90 years ago.

5

"Ground" is whatever that causes the source energy to drain, such as the epiphany of a solution, which makes the solution appear obvious.

6

I would love to be around the moment you have the epiphany about how much you got for how little you spent and what an asshole you are about whining about it.

7

I then had an epiphany, spreading over me like a sunrise, beautiful and exhilarating: he wanted me to have to deal with the dildo.

8

The brains adaptation to the lambda calculus is usually experienced as an epiphany.

9

And the software did all this by recognizing a phrase consisting of two words, both of which are not in English!That moment was an epiphany for me, it the precise moment that I realized that personal digital assistants are here, and they actually work.

10

There was never any major epiphany where everything just clicked, though there were a few minor moments of enlightenment, as when I discovered that the neat pattern I had started using in some of my code actually had a name and a well known type class: "Applicative".

11

Upon reading an article on LW entitled "Humans are not automatically strategic", which was a reply to a Sebastian Marshall article "A failure to evaluate return on time fallacy", I had an epiphany that being systematic about things was the route to accomplishing great things.

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I doubt I have to belabor how much life I missed out on because of that...After a lot of soul-searching, and a rather expensive and painfully-wrought epiphany or seven, I realized exactly what I describe above: given who I was at the time, who the other people were, the circumstances we were all in, &c, there simply wasn't another outcome for the situation.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use epiphany in a sentence?

I had an epiphany one day at some aquarium in NJ.

What does epiphany mean?

a divine manifestation

What part of speech is epiphany?

epiphany is commonly used as noun.