foretaste

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

But it was frightening; or, more exactly, it was like a foretaste of death, like being a little less alive.

From "1984" by George Orwell

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

Shop windows, freshly decked, tempted the passerby with foretastes of the season's styles in gowns and hats and furs.

From Destiny by Charles Neville Buck

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

The air was thick with whiffs and foretastes of evolutionism, and the two budding naturalists of the Amazons expedition had inhaled them eagerly with every breath.

From Charles Darwin by Grant Allen

What more can the finest poetry achieve in quickening the things of earth into tokens and foretastes of heaven, with glimpses of higher life and ethereal worlds.

From The Complete Book of Cheese by Robert Carlton Brown

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

For a moment, in the joy of anticipation, a strange light illuminated his face, his lips parted as in a foretasted wonder, and he forgot even to drop the hand he had just withdrawn.

From The Little City of Hope A Christmas Story by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

What is dearer than the joy foretasted at the first imaginings of school?

From The Reform of Education by Giovanni Gentile

She foretasted the day when a vulgar prefix would no longer attach to her name, and when the journals of society would reflect her rising effulgence.

From The Odd Women by George Gissing

"Am I the sun, dear?" he asked, foretasting the delight of listening to her simple answer.

From The Witch of Prague by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

Even our soberer thoughts are very much given to following the possible fortunes of some enterprise, and foretasting the satisfactions of love and ambition.

From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana

I have never committed a burglary, but since the moment when I creaked past the drawing-room door, foretasting the instant when it would open, my sympathies are dedicated to burglars.

From All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches by E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville

We need much humility, wisdom, and love to perform the functions of foreshadowing and foretasting heaven within us.

From Christian Science by Mark Twain

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