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preferment

[pri-fur-muhnt] / prɪˈfɜr mənt /








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Canadian by birth, a successful business career behind him, he moves to Britain to advance quickly in interwar high society and achieve political preferment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

Reshuffles are always something of a nightmare for leaders as they are guaranteed deliverers of disappointment and deflated egos as well as sources of smiles and preferment.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2024

A biga is an Italian-style preferment typically left for around 12 hours to ripen, bringing additional flavor and textural benefits to the final dough.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2021

A faction from one section of a colony struggled with enemies from another over place and preferment, and so on.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

Letting Algernon out of his cage would throw the meeting into chaos, and after all this was Burt’s debut into the rat-race of academic preferment.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes


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