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also ascendence
as in dominance
controlling power or influence over others
studied the ascendance of modernism in 20th-century art and design
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Recent Examples of ascendance
His election embodies the ascendance of Muslim Americans in a society that often has shunned them.
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Dan Morrison, USA Today, 1 Jan. 2026
In late 2015, Ariana Grande‘s seemingly frictionless ascendance to all-consuming pop superstardom had finally hit a tiny bit of turbulence.
—Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 25 Dec. 2025
But its ascendance no longer seems inevitable.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2025
For the time being, the Coordination Framework, the alliance behind al-Sudani’s initial ascendance, seems poised to retain unity among Shia blocs.
—Nabil Salih, Time, 4 Dec. 2025
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Dan Morrison, USA Today, 1 Jan. 2026
In late 2015, Ariana Grande‘s seemingly frictionless ascendance to all-consuming pop superstardom had finally hit a tiny bit of turbulence.
—Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 25 Dec. 2025
But its ascendance no longer seems inevitable.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2025
For the time being, the Coordination Framework, the alliance behind al-Sudani’s initial ascendance, seems poised to retain unity among Shia blocs.
—Nabil Salih, Time, 4 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ascendance
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Netherlands’ Xandra Velzeboer won the short track 1,000 meters on Monday, claiming her second gold at the Winter Games and extending Dutch dominance of the competition.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
16 Feb. 2026
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The growing instability of the Seven Kingdoms after centuries of Targaryen dominance.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
16 Feb. 2026
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Step into the domination station and enjoy.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
11 Feb. 2026
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Advertisement In the poetry of his performance, Bad Bunny showed that love is not domination.—
Taylor Crumpton,
Time,
10 Feb. 2026
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The driver is dominion, not religion.—
Josef Joffe,
The Atlantic,
14 Feb. 2026
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Cosmological queries were the dominion of philosophers, says Jenann Ismael—herself a philosopher of physics at Johns Hopkins University.—
Sarah Scoles,
Scientific American,
10 Feb. 2026
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Generally, the federal government does not need to respect local zoning regulations that conflict with federal mandates often referred to as the supremacy clause.—
Mike Hellgren,
CBS News,
4 Feb. 2026
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This beer company had a 10-year lock on Super Bowl commercial supremacy.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
4 Feb. 2026
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Emmanuel Macron equated territorial sovereignty with the rights of the French to police their own misinformation and democracy.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
15 Feb. 2026
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And the loss of our supply chain sovereignty was not a function of a prosperous and healthy system of global trade.—
Azhar Sukri,
CNBC,
14 Feb. 2026
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Lauren’s ascendancy is the biggest shift in a top 10 that features some other notable changes.—
Luke Leitch,
Vogue,
28 Jan. 2026
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This spring, Netflix has Japanese rights to all 47 games of the World Baseball Classic in Tokyo, which should be massive in that country, given the international ascendancy of stars such as Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, both key cogs in the Los Angeles Dodgers two-time World Series winners.—
David Bloom,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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His reign was pockmarked by disputes with players and wildly inconsistent results.—
Tom Burrows,
New York Times,
14 Feb. 2026
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Light flows in from the garden, and quiet reigns.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Ascendance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ascendance. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.
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