foretaste
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That is a foretaste of what analysts say will be a growing pool of debt tied to data centers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025
That applies whether you think the current troubles are just a blip or a foretaste of the job losses that technological changes are bringing to the industry, she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2024
According to the Olympic Studies Center, at this point “they play a double role: In addition to announcing the Games, they provide a foretaste of their visual identity.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2024
“A foretaste of the future,” said Petteri Taalas, the secretary general of the World Meteorological Organization.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2023
I wondered if this was a foretaste of the incomprehension I had been promised.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
As spare and considered as their Morton Feldman score, these solos aren’t just foretastes of 1960s Judson Dance Theater; they could easily be the work of a present-day postmodernist like Beth Gill.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2022
But her letters also show that already she was having foretastes of that baptism of suffering, which was to fit her for doing her Master's work.
From The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by George L. Prentiss
These distant and prolonged separations seem like foretastes of death....
From Records of a Girlhood by Fanny Kemble
It was a festival day, and her soul felt all the glow of fervor and spiritual joy which at times wraps the pious spirit into foretastes of celestial happiness.
From Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius by A. J. (Augustine J.) O'Reilly
These aërial journeys may be foretastes of those we shall make after we are freed from the incumbrance of avoirdupois.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 by Various
At the same time, Auburn University officials say the school is expected to maintain consistent undergraduate enrollment at about 25,000 students with no significant growth foretasted.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 10, 2019
Adam foretasted comfort for himself and his descendants.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
He caught, unconsciously, the serenity of her mood, and foretasted the peace which her being would bring to him if it were ever intrusted to his hands.
From The Story of Kennett by Bayard Taylor
For herself she was unafraid, she foretasted entire success.
From Red Masquerade by Louis Joseph Vance
Between night and noonday there has been the dawn, with its searching illumination, its thrill of faith, the rapture of self-sacrifice in which anchorite and martyr foretasted the joys of heaven.
From A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Mrs. Sutherland Orr
She was already foretasting the dreariness of life without the critical, corrective, and withal stimulating presence of her elder child.
From Kildares of Storm by Eleanor Mercein Kelly
In that lonely little closet of his, Pierre foretasted all that this world hath either of praise or dispraise; and thus foretasting both goblets, anticipatingly hurled them both in its teeth.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
All her plans, all her dreams, all her sweet foretasting sprang up before her, mocking her; all the intolerable sympathy of her friends, all the secret laughter it would hide, came at her, twisting her.
From The Happy Warrior by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson
And foretasting the joy of approaching triumph, they, with silent consent, invited Judas to decide the matter.
From The Crushed Flower and Other Stories by Herman Bernstein
We need much humility, wisdom, and love to perform the functions of foreshadowing and foretasting heaven within us.
From Christian Science by Mark Twain
