eureka moment

noun

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

Example Sentences

For Brown, it was "a eureka moment".

From BBC

Adam, who had built a career in supercomputing, says he had the "eureka moment" for Foundem while smoking a cigarette outside the offices of his previous employer.

From BBC

Anyone looking for a eureka moment will be disappointed.

From BBC

"Our eureka moment was when our first experiments showed it is possible to produce electricity in a cyclic rhythm and the precise linkage between this and the plant's inherent daily rhythm," Chakraborty said.

From Science Daily

Two decades ago, Dalmau says, detecting those autoantibodies in the CSF of several young women “was a eureka moment.”

From Science Magazine