ascendancy
Example Sentences
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Swiss stopper Sommer saved from Marc Pubill as well, with the hosts in the ascendancy in the final stages, and they eventually got their second in the third minute of stoppage time.
From Barron's
“A party that is in its ascendancy, a party that’s on its toes, no longer on its heels.”
From Los Angeles Times
The shift returns Syria to the ascendancy of its Sunni Arab majority.
And Democrats in Congress seem worried about the implications of his ascendancy as party tensions between moderates and progressives persist.
From BBC
“The impression that the Hichilema administration is kowtowing to foreign interests gives the opposition something to sink their teeth into at a time when it needs to regain the ascendancy and mount a serious challenge.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
