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foray

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


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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

Primark has said it plans to launch a home delivery service in Britain, four years after it made its first foray into e-commerce.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

They did not use the sonic, stunners but the foray gun, the ancient weapon that fires a set of metal fragments in a burst.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

One of Parton’s first forays into purer pop, this single has the stomp and shuffle of funk and could easily be retrofitted into disco DJ sets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

New Zealand's Defence Force privately warned that Beijing's naval forays and ballistic missile tests would become a "persistent" feature of the Pacific, according to an internal document obtained by AFP last month.

From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026

"I just happened to be given two gloves and I got into the habit of wearing them," Rai said of his early forays into the game.

From BBC ● May 18, 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

Japan had not conducted dollar-selling, yen-buying intervention since 1998, until the authorities forayed into the market on Sept. 22 when the Japanese currency dropped sharply to a 24-year low near 146 yen to the dollar.

From Reuters ● Oct. 7, 2022

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

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2022

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

Her parents have also forayed into the reality show world.

From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2019

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

Breaths come to him in song of the distant Cheviots and the ring of foraying hoofs. 

From Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson




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