preferment
Example Sentences
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Let's take a look at the three things I focused on when developing my sourdough hot cross bun recipe: Ensure fermentation activity is vigorous by increasing preferment percentage, increasing fermentation time, and reducing excessive acidity.
From Salon
A capitalist economy might be unpredictable and risky, but at least it was ostensibly impersonal; better the mechanical indifference of the market than the capricious “punishments and preferments doled out by whites.”
From New York Times
Libyan experts have often questioned whether Haftar has the military forces to seize the capital, but he may be working to persuade some of the militias to defect to him in return for future preferment.
From The Guardian
Calling for a change of leadership, the report said Sidibé had set a tone of “favouritism, preferment, opaqueness, license for wrongdoing, and retaliation against those who speak up against such practices”.
From The Guardian
He has instead relied on preferment from others.”
From The Guardian
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
