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

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. 27, 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

Thus before the great change takes place the nymph has foretastes of the aerial mode of breathing which it will practise when the perfect stage shall have been attained.

From The Life-Story of Insects by George H. (George Herbert) Carpenter

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

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

The times are ripening for his poetry, which is full of foretastes of the morrow.

From Res Judicat? Papers and Essays by Augustine Birrell

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

He caught, unconsciously, the serenity of her mood, and foretasted the peace which her being would bring to him if it were ever intrusted to his hands.

From The Story of Kennett by Bayard Taylor

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 Mrs. Sutherland Orr

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

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 George Santayana

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

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

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

From Christian Science by Mark Twain