ascension
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The president described the ascensions of Bolanos and Alcalde, both 35, as "very important" and signaling "generational renewal."
From Reuters • Jun. 20, 2023
It’s also where the first Black president and the first Black vice president have offered tributes to a civil rights movement that helped their ascensions to high office go from pipe dream to reality.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 13, 2023
What makes their ascensions so startling is the relative anonymity in which they toiled before this fall.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 1, 2021
Shape of Water did another one of the La La Land ascensions.
From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2018
In fact, I think I may say without violating any confidence, that it is the initial point from which the right ascensions and the longitudes of the heavenly bodies are measured.
From Of All Things by Benchley, Robert C.
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