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Recent Examples of foray
Noun
This marks Alec’s first foray into reality television. Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 27 Jan. 2025 This isn’t Google’s first foray into the face-as-a-cursor space. Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 22 Jan. 2025
Verb
In addition to a prolific rap career, Chino also forayed into acting in the early 2000s, appearing in the 2003 rom-com Alex & Emma, The Young and the Restless, Reno 911! and CSI: Miami. Njera Perkins, Peoplemag, 30 July 2024 In the 1990s, Hardy forayed into astrology literature, while continuing to expand the borders of her adult-contemporary pop with albums like Le Danger and songs with Blur and Iggy Pop. Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 12 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for foray 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for foray
Noun
  • As Ronald Allen learned, plaintiffs have to prove they have been harmed by the incursion.
    Alana Semuels, TIME, 28 Jan. 2025
  • But while French speakers still resist the incursion of English, Quebec City is evolving.
    Vjosa Isai, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Fishing fleets hailing mostly from East Asia and Europe are plundering the southwest Indian Ocean, which spans from Kenya to the South African coast and includes Madagascar's waters.
    Sira Thierij, NPR, 26 Dec. 2024
  • All three were plundered by thieves in ancient and medieval times, so many of the items originally left are no longer there.
    Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Most observers believe that an invasion is not imminent; the risk of an all-out war with the U.S., potentially killing hundreds of thousands of people, is too great.
    Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
  • These words – invasion, emergency, terrorist organizations – have legal meanings that give the president particular powers to mobilize the U.S. military.
    Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Critics argue United would have had more budgetary flexibility had the multi-million-pound cost of sacking Erik ten Hag, hiring Amorim, and dismissing Dan Ashworth not gone on this season’s accounts.
    James McNicholas, The Athletic, 4 Feb. 2025
  • And what exactly did Penelope, Odysseus’ wife, do over the 20-year span when her husband was off sacking Troy and taking on those monsters?
    Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 3 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • While the focus of President Donald Trump's immigration policies has been on enforcement raids across the country and his executive orders, House Republicans have introduced at least six bills aimed at immigration reform.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
  • In the end, the police raid a facility used as a base for the Slide organization.
    Isabella Wandermurem, TIME, 31 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • For the late-night show performance, the musician stripped the color from the video feed and showcased the dynamic track in black and white while wearing a hood cloak and glowing eyeglasses.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2025
  • In 2018, his first administration sought to strip the status from Salvadorans, on the grounds that the earthquake that had prompted the U.S. to grant it back in 2001 was long past, even if other crises had since occurred.
    Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Napolitano said Wednesday that medical stocks had been looted and a bullet had pierced the roof of the operating theatre at the Kyeshero hospital as an operation was underway.
    Nimi Princewill, CNN, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Protesters also looted and set fire to the Ugandan Embassy and the mission of Belgium, while the office of the U.N. humanitarian agency in Congo was also attacked.
    Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Her crew pillages the ship for any remaining resources, but their only reward for their betrayal of principles is some lamp oil and six bottles of brandy.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Then, around 614-612 B.C., invaders from Babylonia (modern-day southern and central Iraq) and Media (modern-day western Iran) pillaged and burned the temple as the Assyrian Empire collapsed at the hands of its enemies.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024

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