as in incursion
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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as in to plunder
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Recent Examples of foray
Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, 1 Nov. 2024
The Case For iOS 18.1 Apple’s iOS 18.1 marks the iPhone maker’s first foray into AI with Apple Intelligence, which has given many users a reason to upgrade.
—Kate O'Flaherty, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 12 June 2024
David Lynch's best movies and TV shows, ranked Music
Lynch has forayed into music numerous times prior to his album with Chrystabell.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 6 June 2024
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Noun
Incredibly, it’s been twenty years since JC Chasez released his debut solo album, Schizophrenic — his first and only solo foray following his time in *NSYNC.
—Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, 1 Nov. 2024
The Case For iOS 18.1 Apple’s iOS 18.1 marks the iPhone maker’s first foray into AI with Apple Intelligence, which has given many users a reason to upgrade.
—Kate O'Flaherty, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Verb
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
David Lynch's best movies and TV shows, ranked Music
Lynch has forayed into music numerous times prior to his album with Chrystabell.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 6 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foray
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Predictably, Putin saw the incursion as a stab in the back and pulled the plug, with Moscow labeling the Ukrainian offensive as an escalation.Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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No, the devastation comes in dribs and drabs, via sporadic incursions over years: a home bulldozed here, a well filled with concrete there, a 2 AM home invasion there.Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
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The rest of the Lakota belongings were plundered or burned.Tim Madigan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
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The limited series had already plundered the precursor Creative Arts Emmys on Sept. 8, taking a 14 awards, already a record for a drama in a single season.Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2024
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China demonstrated its pull on the world stage by welcoming a delegation from Saudi Arabia with its first pavilion at the event, as well as its close ties with Russia even as that country is isolated from Western nations and their allies due to its invasion of Ukraine.Reuters, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
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Geopolitical events, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war, have been noted as factors that could impact the company's ability to complete a business combination due to potential adverse effects on financial and business conditions in Europe.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
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The Rams sacked him seven times in their overtime win last Sunday.Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
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The Titans’ best chance to score was snuffed out near the end of the first half when Mountain View’s Kaitlyn Liddle roared in to sack sophomore quarterback Kelsey Peterson.Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 2 Nov. 2024
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Thao’s romantic partner, Andre Jones, has also been named in federal subpoenas issued after the raids.Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024
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Another video claimed Vice President Harris and her husband were paid $500,000 for tipping off P. Diddy about a federal raid of his home, according to NewsGuard.Sam Sabin, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
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Almost all of our renters still love the vibe of a downtown space that, unlike so much of our neighborhood, hasn’t been completely stripped of its character.Suzanne Seggerman, Curbed, 14 Nov. 2024
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Put another way: If Trump were elected and decided to make Project 2025 a reality, his administration would take an existing piece of bureaucratic infrastructure, strip it of many of those who can check its power, and then wield that power to ideological ends and against their political enemies.Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2024
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Recent decades have seen the repatriation of Khmer artifacts from abroad, some of which were looted in the 1970s during the period of violence and instability under the communist Khmer Rouge regime, per the Associated Press.Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2024
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Since 2022, the detainees are believed to have looted millions of euros and run up a similar amount in property damage, from 2022 to 2024, Europol said.Sophie Tanno, CNN, 27 Oct. 2024
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Big as the performance is, Stiller isn’t alone: Writer-director-star Eric Schaeffer also pillages shamelessly from the Sundance playbook of whimsy, giving himself the lion’s share of irony-laden pickup lines and depressive witticisms about the pointlessness of romance.Sean Malin, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024
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In the film, Diop, who is French and of Senegalese descent, follows the 2021 repatriation of 26 artifacts from the Musée du quai Branly back to their place of origin, Dahomey, once a kingdom in the modern-day West African nation of Benin, which France had pillaged in the 1890s.Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2024
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“Foray.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foray. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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