preferment
Example Sentences
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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
It had the flavour of a scene from a wildlife documentary, where weaker animals ape the alpha as a means of preferment.
From The Guardian • Jan. 13, 2017
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.
