ascendancy

"They need to keep that momentum. Right now, the ascendancy is with Liverpool. Liverpool play Man City in a couple of weeks," he added.

Their sound was an anomaly during the ascendancy of punk rock, and they struggled to get gigs outside London.

Female ascendancy is a force of history too powerful, with too much momentum — built up after centuries of slow progress and a few decades of revolutionary tsunami.

But it feels like a new generation of stars, ones who are arguably more familiar to Gen Z festivalgoers, are in the ascendancy this year.

Caudle says Harris’ ascendancy to the top of the Democratic ticket jump-started her excitement to cast her first vote this November — and encourage friends and family to get registered, too.