ascendant
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Two years later One Nation appeared ascendant, picking up 11 seats in Queensland's state election and winning 8.4% of primary votes in the federal election.
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026
Julian Alvarez headed wide as Atletico, ascendant, looked for a second.
From Barron's • Feb. 24, 2026
More than 50 years after debuting at the 1970 Osaka world’s fair with the 17-minute experimental film “Tiger Child,” the format has become the ascendant king of spectacle.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2025
And it is far from certain that OpenAI will be able to fully live up to its commitments, especially if AI demand falters overall or ascendant challengers like Google and Anthropic supplant ChatGPT’s position.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025
And if I told her something funny, then her tongue dropped away, her head fell back, her mouth opened wide, and there were her front teeth, riven and ascendant.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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