aha moment
Noun
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Noun
aha moment (plural aha moments)
- (idiomatic) The moment or instant at which the solution to a problem, or some other significant realization, becomes clear.
- 1994 Jan. 30, Peter Rainer, "[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ADIxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WQMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6187,7905869&dq=aha-moment&hl=en Spielberg backlash strikes ‘Schindler’]," Toledo Blade (USA), p. E2 (retrieved 15 Aug 2012):
- We are never made to understand why Oskar Schindler, the Nazi war profiteer, risked his life to save more than 1,200 Jews; there is no defining Aha! moment that accounts for his heroism.
- 2007 March 8, Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1597480,00.html The Zeal For the Job]," Time:
- Her aha moment came in 2003: "This, I realized, was my passion."
- 2009 May 28, Miguel Helft, "Microsoft’s Search for a Name Ends With a Bing ↗," New York Times (retrieved 15 Aug 2012):
- Microsoft’s marketing gurus hope that Bing will evoke […] a sound — the ringing of a bell that signals the “aha” moment when a search leads to an answer.
- 1994 Jan. 30, Peter Rainer, "[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ADIxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WQMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6187,7905869&dq=aha-moment&hl=en Spielberg backlash strikes ‘Schindler’]," Toledo Blade (USA), p. E2 (retrieved 15 Aug 2012):
- French: illumination
- German: Aha-Erlebnis
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