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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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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

This is a eureka moment for astronomers as they just found a new way to track Venusian weather over the past decade - the longest duration of observation ever.

From Space Scoop

"That was the real eureka moment," said Dr. Merghoub.

From Science Daily

"But as often happens, we came across the answer while deep in obscure literature before our eureka moment."

From Science Daily