ascent
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Researchers found that much of the magma's rise happened quietly, with relatively little seismic activity during its ascent.
From Science Daily • May 14, 2026
But Adhikari's ascent has also been shadowed by repeated controversy over inflammatory and communal remarks.
From BBC • May 8, 2026
Don’t miss: The latest sign of Sandisk’s ascent?
From MarketWatch • May 8, 2026
Since Coachella’s tandem cultural ascent with social media and the influencer in the 2010s, Weekend 1 has increasingly functioned less as a traditional festival and more as a kind of content engine.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2026
An idealistic, melancholic Englishman named Maurice Wilson had not been so fortunate when he’d attempted a similarly reckless ascent thirteen years before Denman.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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