ascended

verb

past tense of ascend
as in climbed
to move or extend upward the path ascended so steeply at one point that we had to scramble up on our hands and knees

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Recent Examples of ascended Fitzpatrick ascended to the role after serving as the state treasurer and House budget chair. — Kansas City Star, 5 Aug. 2026 Rowan ascended to the CEO role in 2021, and the company’s assets have swelled to over $1 trillion earlier this year. — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026 On a relatively short runway, the plane roared to life and gradually ascended to about 1,000 feet. — Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026 While pilgrims ascended the mountain, Mayo supporters descended en masse on Dublin for the final at Croke Park, splashing the county’s colours across the capital. — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 27 July 2026 One of the children, a boy wrapped only in a towel, fled the riverbank in a panic and ascended to the road as the adults were drowning. — ABC News, 21 July 2026 Sporting nirvana When Fernández’s header hit the net nearly 10 minutes later, those Argentines ascended into a realm of sporting nirvana that might come along once or twice in a lifetime. — Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 7 July 2026 As genetics, psychology, and neuroscience ascended, the twentieth century sent physiognomy back into disrepute, and today, from Lavater to Lombroso, its promoters may seem a racist shade of quaint. — Cal Revely-Calder, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ascended
  1. climbed
  2. rose
  3. soared
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  • Back on the job the morning after the alert was lifted, Isidro threw a rope over an avocado tree about 20 feet (6 meters) high and climbed up.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026
  • The average freight rate climbed 9 percent percent year over year to $1,475 per 20-foot container (TEU).
    — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of climbed
Verb
  • The price swung between $72 and $102 last month as hopes rose and fell that the United States and Iran could reach an agreement that would allow oil tankers to freely exit the Middle East again to deliver crude worldwide.
    — Frank Andrews, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Meanwhile, the share of California public safety employees with at least 15 years of tenure dramatically rose from about 10% in 1996 to 47% in 2024.
    — Mariana Trujillo, Oc Register, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of rose
Verb
  • In Iran, the rate of inflation for food has soared by nearly 130% over the past 12 months, and people are having to buy food and medicine in installments, according to reports from Iranian media.
    — Mustafa Qadri, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Their odds of playing into October have soared from roughly 7 percent to better than 60 percent.
    — Dennis Lin, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of soared

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