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ascent
noun as in upward movement
Example Sentences
It would take several years of quiet, painstaking work, and it would begin with Zuckerman’s ascent.
But with some members of his own party resistant to his surprise ascent to the top in 2016, he struggled with other aims.
The awards marked her continued ascent, after being named one of the BBC's Sounds of 2024 - but she made sure to honour her inspirations.
A few years after my drink with Brooks — and after the dubious ascent of Bush to the White House in 2000, and the Iraq War had caught and carried Brooks hook, line and sinker in his New York Times columns — I lacerated him in my own columns, perhaps especially this one.
His ascent to the highest office in the US while facing dozens of criminal charges has plunged the country into uncharted territory.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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