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a brief venture by a person or company that is different than the kinds of activities they usually do

The scientist has a successful foray into local politics.

The baby who brought my grandparents to Ohio didn't survive her first week. ... Mamaw's first foray into adulthood ended in tragedy.
J.D. Vance -- Hillbilly Elegy

foray = attempt to do something new

Jem threw open the gate and sped to the side of the house, slapped it with his palm and ran back past us, not waiting to see if his foray was successful.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

foray = raid; or unusual attempt

Two decades later, I ran into the teacher who had endured my first foray into kindergarten.
J.D. Vance -- Hillbilly Elegy

foray = attempt to do something new

The teacher gushed, and I received two pieces of candy for my foray into subtraction, a skill we'd learned only days before.
J.D. Vance -- Hillbilly Elegy

foray = attempt to do something new

"Early forays by Risley into the realm of female symbolish and the charismatic naure of domestic objects," says Charna.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
But the following year, at the foretold foray at the ford, he overcame her, and actually lived to die another day.
Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
One evening I got back to the barracks late from a wood-gathering foray outside the walls.
Corrie ten Boom -- The Hiding Place
When I wake, somehow I feel even more drained by this than my usual nighttime forays into blood and terror.
Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay
For about ten minutes, before launching their next foray into these tribal mountains, which their ancestors have ruled for centuries.
Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor
I surely have hunted and forayed and fought all the days of my life.
Jack London -- Sea Wolf
The expedition's many forays into the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific west of South America were of decisive significance as well.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
According to Clay, the prevailing explanation for my foray into the Josh Bennett Dead Zone is that I must already be dead.
Katja Millay -- The Sea of Tranquility
Every foray was life-or-death–clothes were not a priority.
Stephenie Meyer -- The Host
He had brought many men with him; indeed all the survivors of the foray were now gathered on the slope nearby, two or three hundred strong.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Two Towers
Sally Jean said that she had heard there was a foray of things to do, Graceland to name just one.
Jill McCorkle -- Ferris Beach
As that was actually my first foray into a girl's locker room, I have to say no."
Nora Roberts -- Blood Brothers
Gawaine and Mordred came straight to Camelot from their foray among the Old Ones, but Agravaine did not come with them.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
The Wide Patrols began as mere forays or raids, led by Woundwort, into the surrounding country.
Richard Adams -- Watership Down
Claudia made this pronouncement with the same fearless zeal that characterized her forays into fishing and farming and everything else.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge

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