How to Use ascendancy in a Sentence

ascendancy

noun
  • Her ascendancy in the art world had been swift.
    — Adam Moss, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Her ascendancy in the art world had been swift.
    — The Editors, Curbed, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Along with a well-over-six-figure salary, the new role seemed to come with a sense of ascendancy.
    — Clare Caldera, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2022
  • This is either a chorus for the damned — or the sound of pork's ascendancy.
    — Caitlin Dewey, chicagotribune.com, 26 May 2017
  • This is either a chorus for the damned — or the sound of pork’s ascendancy.
    — Caitlin Dewey, The Denver Post, 26 May 2017
  • In different times during the game, both teams were in the ascendancy.
    — Mike Gramajo, Pro Soccer USA, 28 Apr. 2018
  • How did the party do all of this during a period of right-wing ascendancy?
    — David Leonhardt, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
  • The recent ascendancy of the right takes elements that were always present and twists them in new ways.
    — Kim Phillips-Fein, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2018
  • England should be able to press their ascendancy if the Belgium game is anything to go by.
    — SI.com, 23 June 2018
  • Meanwhile on the left, the radical wing has also been on the ascendancy.
    — Garret Martin, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2022
  • The next three attempts saw the ball lost near the City goal, and Leeds were the team in the ascendancy overall.
    — Sam Lee, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2026
  • For her part, Wu sees her ascendancy as a chance to help attract new voices to public service.
    — Adrian Walker, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Sip & Guzzle’s ascendancy in the bar world has been swift and absolute.
    — Brad Japhe, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • Even some on the Eastside would love to see the city stumble and help those suburbs regain their ascendancy.
    — Jon Talton, The Seattle Times, 15 Sep. 2017
  • The industry is very mad at Apple for this, but the iPod’s ascendancy is there.
    — Nilay Patel, The Verge, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Argentina began the game on top and needed just ten minutes to get themselves in the ascendancy.
    — SI.com, 28 June 2019
  • The ascendancy of climate politics has helped the Greens’ rise.
    — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2020
  • But, in the coming months, his rapid ascendancy in the renewable-energy cosmos might make the boast seem less of a joke.
    — James Rainey, NBC News, 11 June 2017
  • Or the wild ascendancy of Ashley Judd, who plays young Vivi, as one of the lady movie stars of this era.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 10 June 2022
  • New elites—Jews from Arab lands, the Orthodox, the right wing—are in ascendancy.
    — Jeff Stein, Newsweek, 2 Feb. 2018
  • But even more, the land grab underscored the ascendancy of a new class of whale-size office tenants — tech giants turned media moguls.
    — Roger Vincent, latimes.com, 16 June 2019
  • Bayern Munich were in the ascendancy before half-time, and the game followed that same script after the break.
    — SI.com, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Maybe the dish’s ascendancy can be traced to cookbook author Yotam Ottolenghi.
    — Rick Nelson, charlotteobserver, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Now, though, originalism is in its ascendancy on the Supreme Court.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The democracies were still in ascendancy.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 20 May 2026
  • Newsweek is looking back at the handful of times a vice president has stepped in to serve as president and outlines the process of ascendancy.
    — Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Eventually, this would lead to the ascendancy of the cassette tape and the Walkman.
    — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 1 Sep. 2017
  • None of this is to make light of the sinister anti-Semitic strain in the ascendancy of alt-right ideology.
    — Simon Schama, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Factor in the BlackRock ascendancy, and what lies ahead is not difficult to guess.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 11 Dec. 2020
  • And the small drones which are already dominating the battlefield will reach a new level of ascendancy.
    — David Hambling, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025

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