ascendant
Example Sentences
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We were lucky in that it was an ascendant business at the time.
In the soft glow of morning cafés, I see it everywhere: oatmeal, ascendant.
From Salon
The NFL has become ascendant, with a 2023 Pew Research Center survey finding that, by a wide margin, Americans considered football to be “America’s sport.”
From Salon
Manager Dave Roberts stayed in the dugout, trusting his ascendant staff ace to pitch the team to a championship.
From Los Angeles Times
Dictators and rogue states would be ascendant, nuclear weapons would proliferate, and the president-elect would never make good on his bluster about ending the war in Ukraine in 24 hours.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
