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