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
Summer 2023 has been a fascinating foretaste of a future under a changing climate.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2023
“A foretaste of the future,” said Petteri Taalas, the secretary general of the World Meteorological Organization.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2023
Immediately, two or three others cried out also, and a wind, a foretaste of that great down-pouring they awaited, swept the church.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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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
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
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 Grenville Kleiser
"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
They can prove to you how abundantly able he is to reward all trust and service, giving foretastes of heavenly bliss even in the midst of earthly warfare.
From A Knight of the Nineteenth Century by Edward Payson Roe
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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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 Giovanni Gentile
For herself she was unafraid, she foretasted entire success.
From Red Masquerade by Louis Joseph Vance
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
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 A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson
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
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
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
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