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

“But if this a foretaste of the feast to come, then we’re in massive trouble.”

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 26, 2023

“A foretaste of the future,” said Petteri Taalas, the secretary general of the World Meteorological Organization.

From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2023

Immediately, two or three others cried out also, and a wind, a foretaste of that great down-pouring they awaited, swept the church.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

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

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

Some foretastes of the new gospel had, as I have said already, been vouchsafed to me at Littlehampton by Mr. Philpot.

From Memoirs of Life and Literature by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock

But, ah! the way thither is not so easy; and these heavenly foretastes remain only a short time in the souls of children, as well as of grown people.

From The Home by Mary (Mary Botham) Howitt

"We shall see him as he is," says the apostle; and some foretastes of that transcendent revelation are vouchsafed us here on earth.

From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse H. Jones

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light illuminated his face, his lips parted as in a foretasted wonder, and he forgot even to drop the hand he had just withdrawn.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

For herself she was unafraid, she foretasted entire success.

From Red Masquerade by Louis Joseph Vance

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

Confident of success, they were foretasting gleefully the terror of the stream at sight of the blessed image entering its waters.

From The Torrent Entre Naranjos by Isaac Goldberg

"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

Instantly she knew, with that foretasting mind of hers, that the man peering over the policeman's shoulder and Johnny Two-Hawks had met somewhere that day.

From The Drums of Jeopardy by Harold MacGrath

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