foretaste
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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
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
"The extreme weather which has affected many millions of people in July is unfortunately the harsh reality of climate change and a foretaste of the future," said the World Meteorological Organization's Secretary-General, Prof Petteri Taalas.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 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
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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
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
Such innocence in such darkness, such purity in such an embrace; such foretastes of heaven are possible only to childhood, and no immensity approaches the greatness of little children.
From The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo
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 Mary (Mary Botham) Howitt
Shop windows, freshly decked, tempted the passerby with foretastes of the season's styles in gowns and hats and furs.
From Destiny by Charles Neville Buck
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
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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
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 F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
She foretasted the day when a vulgar prefix would no longer attach to her name, and when the journals of society would reflect her rising effulgence.
From The Odd Women by George Gissing
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
"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
Instantly she knew, with that foretasting mind of hers, that the man peering over the policeman's shoulder and Johnny Two-Hawks had met somewhere that day.
From The Drums of Jeopardy by Harold MacGrath
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 E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville
She was already foretasting the dreariness of life without the critical, corrective, and withal stimulating presence of her elder child.
From Kildares of Storm by Eleanor Mercein Kelly