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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Some of you will have an epiphany.
—Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 22 Jan. 2026
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When is the Feast of the Epiphany?
—Jordan Green, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 6 Jan. 2026
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As if there was something of loss and epiphany at the same time.
—Ed Meza, Variety, 13 Mar. 2023
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The good news, though, was that this sink drama gave me an epiphany.
—Sherry Kuehl, Kansas City Star, 5 Mar. 2025
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Next came an epiphany from Vonnegut.
—Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2026
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Eyes widening, Zac has an epiphany.
—Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026
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Eyes widening, Zac has an epiphany.
—Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2026
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That was an epiphany about what good writing might be, at least in my case.
—Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 27 June 2024
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And then, like an epiphany from the saints, a glint of yellow caught my eye.
—Lisa Donovan, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
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Then, Charlotte has an epiphany.
—Alex Ross, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2025
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Leneker did not arrive at the method by epiphany.
—Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
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With this epiphany came a sort of release and a strange calmness.
—Rachel Deloache Williams, The Hive, 13 Apr. 2018
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Life began again behind bars with an epiphany in the prison yard.
—Michael M. Phillips and Brianna Abbott, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
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But old-man fist-shaking leads to a touching epiphany this time.
—Washington Post, 10 May 2021
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Walking through that studio was an epiphany.
—Tim Genske, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
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This, in itself, is quite an epiphany in terms of how these models think.
—John Werner, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
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If so, let this epiphany be your lighthouse as things start to shift and change through the month.
—Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 May 2025
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If so, let this epiphany be your lighthouse as things start to shift and change through the month.
—Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2025
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Boyce soon had his own epiphany moment on a city street en route to the subway.
—Susan Miller, USA TODAY, 4 June 2019
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What was your first musical epiphany?
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
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And then in the mid-’90s, when web search became a thing, there was this epiphany.
—Steven Levy, Wired, 19 May 2021
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But this simple exchange was an epiphany for Groff.
—Janine MacLachlan, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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The oldest player on the Sounds had an epiphany one day last month.
—Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 11 June 2026
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One yearns for the breakthrough, the epiphany, the point, that will make sense of it all, and thus cure it.
—Lauren Oyler, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2024
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Her fiction has been published in Epiphany.
—Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Jan. 2026
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Three Kings Day and the feast day of the Epiphany are on the same day.
—Jordan Green, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 6 Jan. 2026
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Every moment in the concert is an epiphany.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 May 2026
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There was no epiphany, just dirt, the vast curtain between this realm and the other.
—Aria Aber, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021
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Those epiphanies linger long after a retreat ends.
—Jenna Ryu, SELF, 28 Jan. 2026
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