ascendency

Piastri’s McLaren team-mate and British hero Lando Norris is spearheading a resurgence for a home team once again in the ascendency, leading the constructors’ championship and chasing down an ever-more under-duress and once-dominant defending champion in Verstappen.

Harris’ lightning-fast ascendency to the Democratic presidential nomination after President Biden’s withdrawal bumped Newsom out of White House contention until at least 2028, and most likely forever.

As 1994 reached the height of summer, the band's star was in the ascendency with each new single charting higher than the last.

The kind of person he was before the bestselling memoir, the Netflix adaptation, the Silicon Valley schmoozing, and the political ascendency.

With the ascendency of religious exemptions, especially in federal law, it would be natural to wonder what happened to the old-fashioned objection that abortion bans are really just an attempt by the state to impose one religious view about when life begins on others who don’t share that perspective.