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foray

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


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Politics isn’t her first foray into a field where women are underrepresented.

From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026

Ishioka, a celebrated Japanese graphic designer making her first foray into Hollywood costume design, won an Oscar for her work on the film.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

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

Panda Express is expanding its marketing in Roblox and Fortnite, saying initial forays like integrating its panda mascot and Original Orange Chicken boosted brand awareness and restaurant visits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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

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

The Wide Patrols began as mere forays or raids, led by Woundwort, into the surrounding country.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Before he forayed into creating board games, Mr Teuber worked as a dental technician.

From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2023

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

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

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

The Khalif of Damascus had enjoined him on no account to risk the whole Moslem army in unknown dangers, and had only authorized small foraying expeditions.

From The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole


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