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foretaste

[fawr-tayst, fohr-, fawr-tayst, 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

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

"We shall see him as he is," says the apostle; and some foretastes of that transcendent revelation are vouchsafed us here on earth.

From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse H. Jones

These distant and prolonged separations seem like foretastes of death....

From Records of a Girlhood by Fanny Kemble

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

It was a festival day, and her soul felt all the glow of fervor and spiritual joy which at times wraps the pious spirit into foretastes of celestial happiness.

From Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius by A. J. (Augustine J.) O'Reilly

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

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 F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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


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