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

Summer 2023 has been a fascinating foretaste of a future under a changing climate.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 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 Prentiss, George L.

No act of holy obedience is here left without foretastes of joy, which, though they be but 'brooks by the way,' contain the same water of life which hereafter swells to an ocean.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII by Maclaren, Alexander

Thus before the great change takes place the nymph has foretastes of the aerial mode of breathing which it will practise when the perfect stage shall have been attained.

From The Life-Story of Insects by Carpenter, George H. (George Herbert)

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 Allen, Grant

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 Taylor, Bayard

The old author long ago foretasted this, who wrote,—"The divine arts of printing and gunpowder have frightened away Robin Goodfellow, and all the fairies."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862 by Various

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 Melville, Herman

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 Bernstein, Herman

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 Melville, Herman

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 Kelly, Eleanor Mercein

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

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

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 MacGrath, Harold