How to Use ascendant in a Sentence

ascendant

1 of 2 noun
  • In fact, your birth chart begins with your rising sign, or ascendant.
    — Aliza Pelto, Women's Health, 17 June 2023
  • The ruler of the ascendant is Jupiter, which is located in the first house.
    — Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 13 Aug. 2020
  • God of a lack of abundance, cold-blooded, ascendant, how do the animals treat you, god?
    — Alice Gribbin, The New York Review of Books, 2 Nov. 2023
  • These ascendants met for back-to-back bedlam in March Madness.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 17 May 2025
  • The ascendant or the rising sign is more about the diurnal rotation of the earth.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Like Burton in ’64, the 40-year-old’s star is in the ascendant.
    — Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Those with their ascendant in Cancer are pretty big on loyalty as well.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 21 June 2024
  • The key difference between the queen and the queen consort is that the queen is an ascendant to the throne through succession.
    — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2022
  • The unique placement of the planets in the houses is determined by your rising sign, also known as your ascendant.
    — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 4 July 2021
  • With the antitrust lawsuit settled, sports eating finance, and red-state culture ascendant, the lane is wide open.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 30 Dec. 2025
  • This fear of a declining America because of an ascendant left is pervasive on the right.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
  • So, how does this affect you when your ascendant — the sign responsible for how people perceive you — falls in Cancer?
    — Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 21 June 2024
  • There are some deeper personality traits that come into play with Cancer ascendants, too.
    — Lisa Stardust, Women's Health, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Some might say that Mars’s connection to the ascendant in an astrocartography chart can bring conflict.
    — Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 28 Nov. 2025
  • For example, let’s say Jupiter is in Sagittarius on the ascendant in New York City.
    — Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Underpinning all this is a decades-old ethnic and socioeconomic tension between the secular elite and the ascendant right.
    — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 23 July 2023
  • Deion Sanders and the ascendant Colorado Buffaloes were the talk of football—not just college football, but football, period.
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Also, her Capricorn ascendant showed a person with a tremendous amount of stamina, who was (quite literally) born to be an authority figure in life.
    — Women's Health, 4 May 2023
  • Her chart also reveals that she was born with a Libra ascendant (or rising), which has everything to do with first impressions and one’s personal aesthetic.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Because of their gregarious nature, Gemini ascendants will also ace making connections with a wide variety of people.
    — Aliza Pelto, Women's Health, 17 June 2023
  • The sun sign is said to represent our basic personality, the moon explains our inner, emotional nature and our ascendant, or rising sign, captures our outer appearance and first impression to the world.
    — Nadja Sayej, Forbes.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • That election cycle was notable because Cuomo overcame a primary challenge from the actress Cynthia Nixon, who targeted him from the ascendant left.
    — Ross Barkan, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Italian ascendant Emma Severini looks for her second international goal ahead of her 22nd birthday.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 2 July 2025
  • For anyone who came of age in the late nineties and still recalls the moment in which grunge (fading) and pop-punk (ascendant) had a brief but potent sartorial collision, the look of the Guts tour, both onstage and off, will feel deeply familiar.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
  • There has been a fundamental shift in the way electricity is generated in the United States, with cleaner energy sources such as natural gas, wind and solar power ascendant.
    — New York Times, 2 June 2018
  • The fast-ascendant baritone Jarrett Ott, as Seward, mastered a demanding tessitura and vividly conveyed the character’s arrogance and agony.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • His project syncs up with the radical skepticism ascendant on the American right, which is currently upending decades of institutional wisdom around public health, education and international trade.
    — Joseph Bernstein, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Lang explains that the rare hybrid solar eclipse occurring on April 19 is in alignment with Harry’s ascendant in Libra and descendant in Aries—points in one’s birth chart that relate to the axis line between the self and other.
    — Naydeline Mejia, Women's Health, 29 Apr. 2023
  • This weekend lifts young ascendants like Victor Wembanyama and Kon Knueppel, alongside the timeless forces of LeBron James and Kevin Durant.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The muted interest reflects how DeSantis is having a harder time dominating the political conversation on the right, after appearing ascendant in the run-up to the 2022 elections.
    — Mackenzie Mays, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2023

ascendant

2 of 2 adjective
  • Their ascendant depth is a big cause for the climb up the standings.
    — Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Right now, the dark passions are ascendant.
    — David Brooks, Mercury News, 22 Nov. 2025
  • Yes, the viral fame is ascendant.
    — Mike Valerio, CNN Money, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Their primeval agenda — decades in the making — is ascendant now.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2022
  • An ascendant law school at George Mason would be part of that plan.
    — Jo Becker, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2023
  • For now, the far-right wing of the party is ascendant and sees no need to moderate.
    — Jonathan J. Cooper, ajc, 18 Sep. 2022
  • And which ascendant country artist might be next to follow in his chart footsteps?
    — Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Among this year’s notably ascendant?
    — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 27 May 2026
  • Nine years ago, headlined by Paul at point guard, the Clippers were ascendant.
    — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The Daily Wire was once ascendant in right-wing media.
    — Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 9 May 2026
  • Fellow scene-stealer Love, by contrast, was still ascendant and much rougher around the edges.
    — Justin Ravitz, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Both parties found a middle ground to reward an ascendant pitcher.
    — Matt Gelb, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2026
  • That trend could be tested in a year where conservative voters may be ascendant.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Carl’s nomination failed, but his views are ascendant.
    — Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026
  • The never-Trump wing of the GOP is not ascendant -- far from it.
    — Rick Klein, ABC News, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Lastly, the once-ascendant Jay Woodcroft may very well be on the Kings’ radar.
    — Andrew Knoll, Daily News, 25 May 2026
  • No one doubts that the attack, and his ascendant profile, profoundly reshaped him.
    — Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • When Osaka was first ascendant, keeping her toes on the hashmark at the baseline was enough.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
  • With the Watts riots still several months in the future, the city, as far as anyone knew, was ascendant.
    — Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 4 June 2026
  • The talking heads from the opinion shows played a minor role, save ascendant Greg Gutfeld.
    — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2022
  • With the antitrust lawsuit settled, sports eating finance, and red-state culture ascendant, the lane is wide open.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Minnesota’s reward is to face the fun and ascendant Grizzlies.
    — New York Times, 16 Apr. 2022
  • As the nation recovers, an ascendant right wing blames the crisis on China.
    — Vulture, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Your rising sign, also known as your ascendant sign, is calculated based on the exact time of your birth on your birthday.
    — Glamour, 27 May 2022
  • If Chapek’s strategy proves right, then long live the ascendant king—and off with the unprofitable peasants.
    — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2022
  • But with the far right ascendant, simply flinging open the country’s borders would be too great a political risk.
    — Rogé Karma, The Atlantic, 1 June 2026
  • TikTok is, arguably, the ascendant platform for news online, so being there makes sense.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2024
  • This is an ascendant team that now gets to play on home soil in what could be a transcendent tournament in 2026.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Dec. 2022
  • What drew Kim, Okazaki, Pan, and others to lie wasn’t a predictably ascendant path.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Just one thing only seems capable of threatening the late-season prospects of a team that has enough talent to be truly ascendant.
    — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2022

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