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
  • Her aha moment: Why not build the birds a tunnel that would shuttle them from the coast all the way back to the nesting site?
    Sarah Sekula, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • And an aha moment that was maybe the biggest development in the Tylenol case in years.
    Chicago Tribune, 20 Oct. 2022
  • For Damian Fagon, the aha moment came while shopping for a suit on Madison Ave.
    Deidre Dyer, Vogue, 20 Apr. 2021
  • During that long-distance phone call, the three moms had an aha moment and a business was born: Kids Love Greece.
    Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • But a little while later came my aha moment, and there was no turning back.
    Jill Fox, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Sep. 2020
  • The less experience someone has, the better the aha moment.
    Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 16 May 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
  • Van Kooten's aha moment is one being shared by web designers around the planet.
    Clive Thompson, Wired, 23 June 2020
  • 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
  • Zuckerberg’s admission was one of those Oprah-style aha moments.
    Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • But Bavor says there wasn’t really any aha moment that led to Project Starline.
    Lauren Goode, Wired, 18 May 2021
  • There was no aha moment or turning point that helped me embrace being Hapa.
    Danielle M. Wong, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Oct. 2017
  • This quirk of old building design went viral months ago in a collective aha moment.
    Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2021
  • In science there’s this incredible focus on the breakthrough, the aha moment.
    Jordan Hollender, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2012
  • 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
  • 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
  • Jimmy Fallon can recall the exact aha moment that gave way to his latest fashion venture.
    Brooke Bobb, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • Even the villainous Julian gets a redemptive aha moment.
    Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Nov. 2017
  • Kathryn has her aha moment, correctly naming a Batman, Christian Bale.
    Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 12 June 2021
  • This aha moment is part of what inspired the brand to organize its new sports bras according to three different levels of compression: light, medium, and high.
    Izzy Grinspan, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Aug. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Bunny Eyez were designed by two sisters who had an aha moment while getting their hair colored and realizing their reading glasses weren't well-suited for the experience.
    Southern Living, 19 June 2018
  • That awkward interval became an aha moment and inspired his Instant-On condom applicator—essentially a stiff band containing a condom.
    Saabira Chaudhuri, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2017
  • There’s something deeply gratifying about watching a person have an aha moment, which happens frequently with psychedelic treatments, and seeing old, worn out perceptions about oneself fall away like unnecessary baggage.
    David E. Carpenter, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022

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