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eureka moment

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noun

  1. a moment at which a person realizes or solves something

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I think my first eureka moment was when I was traveling in sub-Saharan Africa on the Ivory Coast doing a site visit.

From Barron's

The results were no eureka moment for luxury and might lead to caution prevailing among investors, Jefferies analysts wrote in a note to clients.

From The Wall Street Journal

For the man behind the pouch technology, his own Eureka moment similarly came at a music festival back in 2012.

From BBC

He has supported people in the community "four, five, six times before you get that eureka moment and you don't see them again."

From BBC

“We have the technology to do this, and we’re not waiting for a eureka moment. We need to iterate on that and come down the cost curve,” said Noah Planavsky, a professor at the Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture.

From MarketWatch