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
But that willingness dries up temporarily in the face of new indictments, as their ascendent emotion is defensiveness.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2023
“History Books,” the title track from the band’s first album in nine years, is big-hearted freeway rock, made ascendent by frontman Brian Fallon and Springsteen’s tremulous harmonies.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2023
Schumer regards it as the primary legislative vehicle for developing a national strategy to deal with China’s ascendent economic and military strength.
From Science Magazine ● May 14, 2021
At certain stages of cultural development the worldly wise are in the ascendent in the literary world, as they were in the Restoration and after the first World War.
From Essay upon Wit by Joseph Addison
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