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foretaste

[fawr-teyst, fohr-, fawr-teyst, fohr-] / ˈfɔrˌteɪst, ˈfoʊr-, fɔrˈteɪst, foʊr- /






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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

And this is almost surely just the leading edge of the crisis, a small foretaste of the many disasters to come.

From Seattle Times Jul. 18, 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

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 Mallock, W. H. (William Hurrell)

Shop windows, freshly decked, tempted the passerby with foretastes of the season's styles in gowns and hats and furs.

From Destiny by Buck, Charles Neville

All I have undergone, transports of passion, Longings and fears, the horrors of remorse, The shame of being spurn'd with contumely, Were feeble foretastes of my present torments.

From Phaedra by Boswell, Robert Bruce

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)

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

Between night and noonday there has been the dawn, with its searching illumination, its thrill of faith, the rapture of self-sacrifice in which anchorite and martyr foretasted the joys of heaven.

From A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Orr, Sutherland, Mrs.

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)

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 Melville, Herman

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)

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

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 Melville, Herman

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 Goldberg, Isaac

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 MacGrath, Harold




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