ascendent
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As far back as 1985, when the people-are-a-burden ideology was ascendent, Julian predicted China’s coming labor shortage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025
If it is ascendent depressive tunes with a musical theater sensibility you’re after, well, you’ve found it!
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2024
But that willingness dries up temporarily in the face of new indictments, as their ascendent emotion is defensiveness.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2023
Who needs patronage from Visa, Amazon, and Apple when there’s a suite of companies built to serve the specific inclinations of the ascendent Twitch generation?
From The Verge ● Jun. 29, 2022
The seeming fabled story of early chivalry, in them renewed, Shines out to-day with an ascendent glory Above that field of parricidal feud.
From Purgatory by Mrs. James Sadlier
