eureka

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The story goes that Darwin traveled to the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean and then, upon observing the giant tortoises and finches -- eureka!

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  1. interjection Used to express triumph upon finding or discovering something.

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  • Despite its widespread reports, the brain mechanism underlying eureka is poorly understood. —  innovations-report
  • The story goes that Darwin traveled to the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean and then, upon observing the giant tortoises and finches -- eureka! —  Top Stories - Google News
  • All the possible precursor cards have been dealt ahead of Thursday's nominations, and in a year that offers fewer possibilities than most, all we can do is wait, shuffling and reshuffling the same predictions in vain hope of a 'eureka' moment. —  In Contention
  • "That was when this got really interesting, it was a real 'eureka' moment." —  HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News
  • In that newspapers "report on business weekend" section, eureka: "A switch toward more profitable products, such as lines of credit, is helping the core operations churn out strong earnings" for the BMO. —  rabble.ca - News for the rest of us
 

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  1. Greek heurēka, I have found (it) (supposedly exclaimed by Archimedes upon discovering how to measure the volume of an irregular solid and thereby determine the purity of a gold object), first person sing. perfect of heuriskein, to find.

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  1. Prop. *heureka, from Greek εύρηκα, I have found (it), perfect indicative active of εὑρίσκειν (εὑρ-, εὑρε-), find, discover.
 

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