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Meaning: (idiomatic)The moment of a sudden unexpecteddiscovery.2002, Evolutionary biology's'Eureka!' momentsupposedly took place some time in September or October 1835, during the Beagle's five-week visit to the Galapagos Islands. —London Review of Books,7 Mar 20022002, The dreams of a farm boy, theeureka momentin a potato field, the confession to a teacher, the confidence in him shown by businessmen and bankers and investors, the breakthroughs in the laboratory, all the years of work, the decisions of the official patent examiners, those hard-fought victories, all of those demonstrations that had come and gone, the entire vision of the future. —The New Yorker,27 May 20022003, In “Higher,” Bascomb’s account of the race at the end of the nineteen-twenties to build the tallest building in the world, we get one wonderful origin myth andeureka moment: an engineer sees his wife resting a heavy book on the family birdcage and realizes that a lightweight girded structure can carry an immensely heavy load. —The New Yorker,15 Dec 20032004June 7, Melnik said, “Jesus Christ, if I didn’t jump three feet in the air! It was totally aeureka moment.”, inThe New Yorker:2004, Historians teach us to be suspicious of"Eureka" moments, but there are moments when something happens to make one say "Eureka" —The New Yorker,December 6, 2004, p.104Synonym:light-bulb moment
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