"epiphany" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is usually used to refer to sudden realizations or understandings. For example, "After months of hard work, she finally had an epiphany and knew the solution to the problem."
I had the truth epiphany reading an interview the hugely talented writer Chloe Hooper did with Julia Gillard just before she lost the Labor leadership in 2013.
Educating Yorkshire showed viewers that yes it's hard, yes it's graft but it's absolutely worth it because of those moments when a student has an epiphany or a breakthrough, wakes up to problem and sorts it out.
And he doesn't suggest that the episode was some kind of dramatic epiphany.
Peterson, the activist who has lost multiple relatives, had an epiphany when she visited bereaved families in Kazakhstan, where the Soviet Union did its own testing.
The real epiphany came in 2008 when, coincidentally, I found myself retracing the Love Boat route from Los Angeles to Acapulco via the tourist haunts of Los Cabos and Puerto Vallarta.
Hepworth, it seems, sought some comparable epiphany in this work, an escape from the realities of 1947.
Still resident on the Lower East Side 33 years after her fridge-door epiphany, Pfahler is contemptuous of nostalgia.
He had his epiphany in 1996, while working at Oracle, the world's second-largest software firm.
Gisela's epiphany E commerce Bah, humbug!
Mr Hun Sen has had an epiphany too: he and Mr Sam Rainsy "must stay together because, at the very least, we have the same Cambodian blood".How long the amity will last is unclear, but for now it is a marked change.
But it was only once he had actually set foot on an atoll that he was struck by his epiphany: coral islands had been grown by "insects" (as polyps were then known), not built by God.
