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foray

[fawr-ay, for-ay] / ˈfɔr eɪ, ˈfɒr eɪ /


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She describes her first foray into bookselling as a "steep learning curve", but says she is having "lots of fun along the way".

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

But her foray into topical talk has lit a fire in her spirit.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

The deal would mark Continental’s first foray into developing heavy oil.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

This isn’t his first foray into TV, as he joined a panel of judges on Prime’s “Tribunal Justice” in 2023.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026

We had allotted six and a half weeks for this initial foray and now it was nearly over.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

His only diversion is collecting newspaper clippings of famous people, leading him to make secret late-night forays into the archives to uncover the minutiae of their lives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Booth started up DFA in his Brooklyn Heights, N.Y., brownstone in 1981, after forays in indexing at Wells Fargo and A.G.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

He has also made a number of forays into film.

From BBC ● May 27, 2026

When Tesla reports quarterly earnings on Wednesday, the numbers could once again play second fiddle to narrative details about the company’s futuristic forays into robotaxis and humanoid robots.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 21, 2026

These frequent forays into Wizarding territory brought them within occasional sight of Snatchers.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

Inspired by saxophonist Charlie “Bird” Parker, Lee forayed into jazz, picking up his first bass while attending Morehouse College in Atlanta.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2023

This is not the first time Donaldson has forayed into food but it may be the most profitable.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2022

Many forayed into equity options, lifting U.S. volumes more than 40% from 2020, analytics firm Trade Alert estimates.

From Reuters ● Dec. 28, 2021

Recently, the company even forayed into building a zero carbon emission racing vehicle to compete in the Baja 1000, a grueling Mexican off-road race approximately 850 miles long.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2021

I have my mother’s thin blood, the kind so easily forayed by a chilly draft, an unexpected rain.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

As Ford sped forward, a sea of red-coated musicians cavorted and pranced across the south end of the field, foraying past the 20-yard line.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2021

Analysts are now scrutinising whether Grab can justify its valuations by turbocharging growth in its existing businesses and successfully foraying into digital banking.

From Reuters ● Apr. 28, 2021

Their sit-and-wait technique involved male baboons hovering around urban perimeters before foraying into the city.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 26, 2018

While Fletcher and his students are foraying into other applications of the mobile microscope, such as examining your skin or testing for malaria and Tb, MIT’s Ramesh Raskar has become known as the ‘Eye Guy.’

From Forbes ● Jul. 1, 2014

The excellence of the Cossack methods in foraying, pioneer-work, and the forming of military settlements, consolidated the Muscovite conquests.

From The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) by John Holland Rose




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