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foray

[fawr-ay, for-ay] / ˈfɔr eɪ, ˈfɒr eɪ /


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His first foray into professional acting was when he joined the RSC in 1966, going on to play King John, Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Henry IV.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Ponder the first lady’s foray into diplomacy: Melania Trump is an enigmatic figure in Trumpworld.

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026

The venture marks a new foray for Luckey, who has branched out from running Anduril, which was recently valued at $90 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

The development, which will house 338 condominiums, marks Michelin-starred chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s first foray into residential real estate.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

I followed them, having no direction of my own, except away from Siuwensin; which, I gathered as we walked, had been raided by a foray from Passerer across the bridge.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

His only diversion is collecting newspaper clippings of famous people, leading him to make secret late-night forays into the archives to uncover the minutiae of their lives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

One of Parton’s first forays into purer pop, this single has the stomp and shuffle of funk and could easily be retrofitted into disco DJ sets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

Famous Boston fund manager Jeremy Grantham recalled in his autobiography one of his first forays into stock picking as a young man.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026

But its forays into men's football have not borne similar fruit.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

So “fire” meant longer and longer forays into the forest, stealing fallen branches from under the blunt-eyed gaze of snakes, just for one single bucket of drinkable water.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Inspired by saxophonist Charlie “Bird” Parker, Lee forayed into jazz, picking up his first bass while attending Morehouse College in Atlanta.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2023

This is not the first time Donaldson has forayed into food but it may be the most profitable.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2022

Broadcom has also diversified beyond its core chip business and forayed into the lucrative software arena, at a time when the world grapples with supply chain disruptions and an industry-wide chip shortage.

From Reuters ● Dec. 9, 2021

Recently, the company even forayed into building a zero carbon emission racing vehicle to compete in the Baja 1000, a grueling Mexican off-road race approximately 850 miles long.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2021

I have my mother’s thin blood, the kind so easily forayed by a chilly draft, an unexpected rain.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

As Ford sped forward, a sea of red-coated musicians cavorted and pranced across the south end of the field, foraying past the 20-yard line.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2021

Analysts are now scrutinising whether Grab can justify its valuations by turbocharging growth in its existing businesses and successfully foraying into digital banking.

From Reuters ● Apr. 28, 2021

Their sit-and-wait technique involved male baboons hovering around urban perimeters before foraying into the city.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 26, 2018

While Fletcher and his students are foraying into other applications of the mobile microscope, such as examining your skin or testing for malaria and Tb, MIT’s Ramesh Raskar has become known as the ‘Eye Guy.’

From Forbes ● Jul. 1, 2014

The excellence of the Cossack methods in foraying, pioneer-work, and the forming of military settlements, consolidated the Muscovite conquests.

From The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) by John Holland Rose


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