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

Summer 2023 has been a fascinating foretaste of a future under a changing climate.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2023

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

From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 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

The air was thick with whiffs and foretastes of evolutionism, and the two budding naturalists of the Amazons expedition had inhaled them eagerly with every breath.

From Charles Darwin by Grant Allen

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

They can prove to you how abundantly able he is to reward all trust and service, giving foretastes of heavenly bliss even in the midst of earthly warfare.

From A Knight of the Nineteenth Century by Edward Payson Roe

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

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

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

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

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

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 Harold MacGrath

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

I have never committed a burglary, but since the moment when I creaked past the drawing-room door, foretasting the instant when it would open, my sympathies are dedicated to burglars.

From All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches by E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville

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

From Christian Science by Mark Twain

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