How to Use aha moment in a Sentence

aha moment

noun
  • That was her first aha moment—and one that taught her to trust her gut.
    Deanna Pai, Glamour, 31 July 2018
  • That was a real aha moment for me.
    Erin Qualey, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2026
  • But a little while later came my aha moment, and there was no turning back.
    Jill Fox, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Sep. 2020
  • To hear that in a lullaby, to hear it in anger or rapture, is an aha moment.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2020
  • What’s an aha moment that’s common for people new to robotics?
    IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Zuckerberg’s admission was one of those Oprah-style aha moments.
    Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • This quirk of old building design went viral months ago in a collective aha moment.
    Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2021
  • And an aha moment that was maybe the biggest development in the Tylenol case in years.
    Chicago Tribune, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Van Kooten's aha moment is one being shared by web designers around the planet.
    Clive Thompson, Wired, 23 June 2020
  • This took me a while to figure out—and the aha moment came after years of pushing myself too hard and dealing with more pain as a result.
    Kat Elton, Marie Claire, 12 Oct. 2021
  • In science there’s this incredible focus on the breakthrough, the aha moment.
    Jordan Hollender, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2012
  • The journalist might feel the need to wrest some hot information from the subject, or find some aha moment and then the subject gets their guard up.
    Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2026
  • For Cardenas, health issues led to her alcohol aha moment.
    Lisa Shames, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026
  • But Bavor says there wasn’t really any aha moment that led to Project Starline.
    Lauren Goode, Wired, 18 May 2021
  • For Damian Fagon, the aha moment came while shopping for a suit on Madison Ave.
    Deidre Dyer, Vogue, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Jimmy Fallon can recall the exact aha moment that gave way to his latest fashion venture.
    Brooke Bobb, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2020
  • For Solomon, the aha moment came when several of her live gigs, such as weddings and corporate events, were canceled or postponed.
    Stephanie Cain, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2020
  • My aha moment stemmed from a casual question that my therapist posed mid-session about why my primary love language is acts of service.
    Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 13 Feb. 2022
  • Kathryn has her aha moment, correctly naming a Batman, Christian Bale.
    Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 12 June 2021
  • Then, inspired by the convertible spaces on sailboats — Watt grew up sailing and her father later lived on a sailboat — came the aha moment.
    Marni Elyse Katz, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2023
  • For Srivastava, the aha moment came when his farmer uncle lost his entire crop for three years owing to climate variability.
    Stephanie Cain, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Coulier said listening to the album was an aha moment and gave him insight into his relationship with the Grammy-winning singer.
    Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 15 July 2022
  • This is the aha moment—the experience of suddenly understanding.
    Melinda Fouts, Ph.d., Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
  • In the sitcom world, everyone has to go back to their positions when the credits roll, but in 2022, Rosenthal would have stretched the aha moment past one episode.
    Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2022
  • But the aha moment came during the summer of 2015 when the tabloids went to town condemning the topless women in body paint hustling for tips in Times Square.
    Karrie Jacobs, Curbed, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The aha moment linking the infants came in August 2022, when Wadman was called upon to consult in the case of a baby who'd been born with birth defects.
    Erika Edwards, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The idea for private dining was a kind of aha moment between Thomas Lents, the hotel's executive chef, and Michael Carroll, its director of rooms.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Tower 28 had an aha moment when the brand decided to take that advice and create GetSet Matte Powder Blush, which combines the two into one long-wear formula.
    Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The idea for Rent the Runway was an aha moment, according to company history, when Hyman's younger sister bought a $2,000 designer dress to wear to a wedding and busted her credit card balance.
    Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 5 June 2019
  • Decades after that aha moment in a classroom in Santa Monica, Moctezuma is very much on the front lines of the arts in San Diego — a visible and vocal champion for visual art with a deep passion for and commitment to the arts.
    Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2026

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