ascendancies

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Also, there’s so much geographic territory to cover in 100 minutes that the peaks and their ascendancies can feel somewhat fleeting and interchangeable.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2021

Attendees heard plenty of self-congratulatory talk about China’s ascendancies as well as some honest assessment of the country’s shortcomings in philanthropy, finance and technology.

From Washington Post • May 11, 2018

Before Obama’s presidency, Metro also created special cards to celebrate the ascendancies of presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

From Washington Post • Jan. 6, 2017

When Diane Sawyer rose to the anchor desk at ABC World News at the tail-end of 2009, it was the smoothest of the three ascendancies.

From Time • Jun. 26, 2014

Your aspects, dignities, ascendancies, Your partite quartiles, and your plastic trines, And all your heavenly houses and effects, Shall meet no more devout expounders here.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville