aha moment

noun

variants or less commonly Aha moment

: a moment of sudden realization, inspiration, insight, recognition, or comprehension

The aha moment you experience when you've been trying to remember the name of a song and three hours later it hits you …—

Jeffrey Kluger

Note: Aha is sometimes followed by an exclamation point and is also often placed in quotation marks.

That was the "Aha!" moment … that made the befuddlement worthwhile.—

Robin Marantz Henig

Her "aha" moment came about two years ago …—

Emily Weinstein

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This is the aha moment—the experience of suddenly understanding. —

Melinda Fouts, Ph.d., Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024 What the group described as its aha moment was during last year’s New York Fashion Week and a show by designer Jason Wu. —

Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 13 Feb. 2024 That was probably the aha moment from a brand point of view. —

Jane Thier, Fortune, 14 Jan. 2024 The aha moment linking the infants came in August 2022, when Wadman was called upon to consult in the case of a baby who'd been born with birth defects. —

Erika Edwards, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2023 See all Example Sentences for aha moment