FORAYS Synonyms: 88 Similar and Opposite Words

forays 1 of 2

noun

plural of foray

as in incursions

a sudden attack on and entrance into hostile territory made a nighttime foray into the enemy camp and took their command post

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verb

present tense third-person singular of foray

as in plunders

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Recent Examples of forays

Noun

Part one gave a broad overview of the gallery’s history, and part two looked at CEO Marc Glimcher’s courting of Silicon Valley billionaires and his forays into art-tech collaborations. — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 28 Oct. 2026 With Russia's accelerating orbital forays, the clock appears to be ticking. — Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 27 Oct. 2026 With country, some of their past forays include a 2018 performance at the Grand Ole Opry; singing with Chris Stapleton at the 2021 CMT Artists of the Year special; and collaborating with Cody Johnson at Stagecoach in April. — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2026 Know More Some Republicans don’t want any administration making forays into the private sector with public money. — Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 22 Oct. 2026 Anthropic made explicit forays into cryptography over the summer. — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026 When the Heat acquired Giannis Antetokounmpo in June, the natural instinct was to focus on the prodigious point production (57th all time), the volume rebounding (71st all time), the thunderous dunks and the ferocious forays to the basket. — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 4 Oct. 2026 But the singer has supplemented her folk and folk-rock forays with stints as a jazz singer and collaborations with symphony orchestras and the Kronos Quartet. — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2026 For entire stretches of matches, Berger functions as a sweeper when Purce and Guro Reiten lead forays into the opponent’s penalty box. — Karan Lodha, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for forays

Noun

These have been demonstrated by drone incursions into Poland, sabotage attacks linked to Russia, as well as Polish police units deployed to its border with Kaliningrad this month due to the threat of armed incursion by Moscow.

— Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Nov. 2026
Europe has experienced a slew of other disruptions recently, such as attacks on supermarket refrigeration systems, drone incursions and mysterious triggers to alert apps.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of incursions

Verb

Critics contend the industry plunders distressed companies, leading to downsizing and cost-cutting that hurts local communities, though other research has pushed back on that reputation.

— Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 28 Mar. 2026
By delegitimizing the Islamic Republic as an occupying force—one that plunders national wealth to subsidize regional proxies—the opposition has effectively subverted the regime’s nationalist rhetoric.

— Karim Sadjadpour, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2026

Definition of plunders

Noun

In a possible Supreme Court case, border guards’ invasions of privacy collide with the Fourth Amendment.

— George F. Will, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026
In the nineteen-thirties—a decade of political assassinations, failed military coups, brutal invasions of China, and a hard-right reaction against the relative liberalism of the nineteen-twenties—the yakuza embraced the Zeitgeist with gusto.

— Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of invasions

Verb

This distinctly North Korean punishment, used especially to discipline and defenestrate high officials, strips a person of office and sends him to perform physical labor and political reeducation, often in the countryside.

— Jieun Baek, Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct. 2026
The four-week average of claims, which strips out week-to-week volatility, fell to 196,750.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2026