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
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
“But if this a foretaste of the feast to come, then we’re in massive trouble.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 26, 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
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 W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock
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
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
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
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
What is dearer than the joy foretasted at the first imaginings of school?
From The Reform of Education by Giovanni Gentile
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
"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
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
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
We need much humility, wisdom, and love to perform the functions of foreshadowing and foretasting heaven within us.
From Christian Science by Mark Twain
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
