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

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

If we are in this happy disposition, if we thus become regenerate, we shall enjoy from this moment foretastes of the glory which God has prepared.

From The world's great sermons, Volume 03 Massillon to Mason by Kleiser, Grenville

But, ah! the way thither is not so easy; and these heavenly foretastes remain only a short time in the souls of children, as well as of grown people.

From The Home by Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham)

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.

Some foretastes of the new gospel had, as I have said already, been vouchsafed to me at Littlehampton by Mr. Philpot.

From Memoirs of Life and Literature by Mallock, W. H. (William Hurrell)

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

For a moment, in the joy of anticipation, a strange light illuminated his face, his lips parted as in a foretasted wonder, and he forgot even to drop the hand he had just withdrawn.

From The Little City of Hope A Christmas Story by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

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

What is dearer than the joy foretasted at the first imaginings of school?

From The Reform of Education by Gentile, Giovanni

Even our soberer thoughts are very much given to following the possible fortunes of some enterprise, and foretasting the satisfactions of love and ambition.

From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by Santayana, George

All her plans, all her dreams, all her sweet foretasting sprang up before her, mocking her; all the intolerable sympathy of her friends, all the secret laughter it would hide, came at her, twisting her.

From The Happy Warrior by Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth)

I have never committed a burglary, but since the moment when I creaked past the drawing-room door, foretasting the instant when it would open, my sympathies are dedicated to burglars.

From All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches by Somerville, E. Oe. (Edith Oenone)

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

From Christian Science by Twain, Mark

"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)