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

In a foretaste of his behaviour during his Old Bailey trials, Gordon tried to sack his lawyer and said he was too sick to attend court.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 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

“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

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 George L. Prentiss

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

"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

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

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

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

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 Bayard Taylor

Every detail of work and play is colored by expectation, as if the relief of vacation were already foretasted.

From For Greater Things; the story of Saint Stanislaus Kostka by William Terence Kane

"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

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

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

From Christian Science by Mark Twain

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 Herman Bernstein