ascendant
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When the first European universities were established around 1100, the precise pedantry of Scholasticism was ascendant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
The exhibition at the Brick marks an ascendant moment in the artist’s already extraordinary life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Acme wasn’t exactly made for the ascendant financial heights reachable only by Spider-Man.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026
Mr. Obama’s coalition of the ascendant looked to a postracial future of national unity and progress.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Washington, for his part, obliged his Virginia critics by urging his stepgrandson to attend Harvard in order to escape the provincial versions of learning currently ascendant in the Old Dominion.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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