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foray

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


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Politics isn’t her first foray into a field where women are underrepresented.

From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026

The SpikedAde deal marks a foray into a ready-to-drink beverage brand that is outside Constellation’s core beer brands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Ishioka, a celebrated Japanese graphic designer making her first foray into Hollywood costume design, won an Oscar for her work on the film.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

But her foray into topical talk has lit a fire in her spirit.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

In that first week at the Creek, the cafeteria served fried chicken, chicken- fried steak, and fried okra, which marked my first foray into the delicacy that is the fried vegetable.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green

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

He has also made a number of forays into film.

From BBC ● May 27, 2026

Rollins also crossed over to a non-jazz audience with occasional forays into rock, most notably his appearances on The Rolling Stones' 1981 album "Tattoo You."

From Barron's ● May 26, 2026

But as the Taliban had gained more power, they had banned photography, so that had ended their forays outside.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

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

Japan had not conducted dollar-selling, yen-buying intervention since 1998, until the authorities forayed into the market on Sept. 22 when the Japanese currency dropped sharply to a 24-year low near 146 yen to the dollar.

From Reuters ● Oct. 7, 2022

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

Her parents have also forayed into the reality show world.

From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2019

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

For I knew that if I only kept quiet I should see that which I had never yet seen—the home-coming of our famous foraying Duke.

From Red Axe by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett




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