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Before his foray into Spider-Man-related projects, Cage portrayed Johnny Blaze in the 2007 movie “Ghost Rider” and its sequel, “Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
But her foray into topical talk has lit a fire in her spirit.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
In retrospect, Bonilla, 31, finds great irony in how that initial foray into professional acting fictionally materialized her Mexican immigrant parents’ worst nightmare.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Specs is Snap's most recent foray into the wearable tech, coming a decade after its short-lived Spectacles cost the company tens of millions of dollars.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
But President Eisenhower had insisted that the nation’s first foray into space be presented as a peaceful effort, rather than an explicitly military operation that risked triggering a dangerous retaliation by the Soviet Union.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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The economic pressure has been matched by increasing forays by Chinese aircraft and warships close to Japan, and a stream of diplomatic invective invoking Japan’s wartime past.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Josko Gvardiol: Figured at left-back but was always willing to lend his weight to City's attacking forays.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Famous Boston fund manager Jeremy Grantham recalled in his autobiography one of his first forays into stock picking as a young man.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 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
On his previous forays he’d brought back only a single rotten peach and six olives, which he’d encouraged Desdemona to swallow, pits and all, to fill herself up.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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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
Vallée, who hailed from Montreal, forayed into the features film industry with his 1995 thriller “Black List”
From Reuters ● Dec. 27, 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
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But Xiaomi, which reported an 18.9% drop in its latest quarterly revenue in May, has its own compulsions for foraying into EVs.
From Reuters ● Aug. 23, 2023
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
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
I suppose scarcely a people in continental Europe is without some mixture of it; for they enlisted at last in all foraying armies, and served under any banner and chief.
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 1–6
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