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

“But if this a foretaste of the feast to come, then we’re in massive trouble.”

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 26, 2023

“A foretaste of the future,” said Petteri Taalas, the secretary general of the World Meteorological Organization.

From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2023

There were application forms, twenty pages long, and thick, densely printed admission handbooks from Edinburgh and London whose methodical, exacting prose seemed to be a foretaste of a new kind of academic rigor.

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

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

No act of holy obedience is here left without foretastes of joy, which, though they be but 'brooks by the way,' contain the same water of life which hereafter swells to an ocean.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII by Alexander Maclaren

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

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

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

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

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

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

From Christian Science by Mark Twain

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

"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