preferment
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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
Make the starter: Also called a preferment, the starter is a chemically rambunctious mix of flour, yeast, and water that creates much of the finished bread’s flavor.
From Slate • Oct. 7, 2015
Heseltine always used to be coy about his prime-ministerial ambition, affecting implausible innocence; "My position is a very simple one," he once claimed, "I have never sought preferment in the Conservative party."
From The Guardian • Nov. 25, 2012
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
