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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
And that is to reset the balance of global security, and undo the ascendance of the US to its decades-long hegemony.
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Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 3 Dec. 2025
Trump’s unprecedented ascendence was the result of innumerable factors—among them changes in the media, the economy, and American culture—that had little to do with the arguments being made by conservative intellectuals, who were as surprised by Trump as everyone else.
—Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2025
And even if, against all odds, Venezuela’s opposition seized sudden control of the country, there is no guarantee that its ascendance would lead to a durable, democratic transition.
—Francisco Rodríguez, Foreign Affairs, 17 Nov. 2025
Curry’s final-form ascendance a decade ago was the last time random League Pass games became monocultural and parasocial.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2025
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Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 3 Dec. 2025
Trump’s unprecedented ascendence was the result of innumerable factors—among them changes in the media, the economy, and American culture—that had little to do with the arguments being made by conservative intellectuals, who were as surprised by Trump as everyone else.
—Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2025
And even if, against all odds, Venezuela’s opposition seized sudden control of the country, there is no guarantee that its ascendance would lead to a durable, democratic transition.
—Francisco Rodríguez, Foreign Affairs, 17 Nov. 2025
Curry’s final-form ascendance a decade ago was the last time random League Pass games became monocultural and parasocial.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ascendance
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On others, the BBC remains comfortably ahead of YouTube, but for the broadcaster to be supplanted on even a single metric is notable, given its decades-long dominance in Britain.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
13 Jan. 2026
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Behavioral psychology calls this coercive control, maintaining dominance through unpredictability, dependency, and psychological pressure rather than overt force.—
Rabbi Bruce D. Forman,
Sun Sentinel,
13 Jan. 2026
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Experts are concerned about China’s domination of the world market for rare-earth minerals, which are essential to the equipment that powers much of modern life.—
Dexter Filkins,
New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2026
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Everything else is a euphemism for old fashioned domination that the region has spent generations trying to escape.—
Boris Muñoz,
Time,
12 Jan. 2026
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During the Cold War, Radio Free Europe broadcast news to parts of Eastern Europe that were under Communist dominion.—
Dexter Filkins,
New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2026
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His strong-arming of universities, law firms, and media companies is a response to real problems, but his actions seem aimed more at harming those entities—and expanding his dominion over them—than at crafting enduring fixes.—
Stephen Kotkin,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Dec. 2025
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Clemson, at 5-0, hosts the 4-0 Hurricanes in what is surprisingly a crucial battle for ACC supremacy.—
Jim Root,
New York Times,
14 Jan. 2026
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This capacity to translate democratic and constitutional aspirations matters not because legislative majorities are always right, but because certain national challenges cannot be deferred or ignored indefinitely, and because judicial supremacy cannot substitute for self-governance.—
Duncan Hosie,
The Atlantic,
13 Jan. 2026
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The new agreement says that Ukraine’s sovereignty and its ability to defend itself are non-negotiable elements of any peace deal and warned that its self-defense is essential to its own security and wider Euro-Atlantic stability.—
Emma Bussey,
FOXNews.com,
7 Jan. 2026
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Fundamentally, sending in our own military to make the arrest on foreign soil without the consent of the other country would still violate international law and the sovereignty of Venezuela.—
Elie Mystal,
Washington Post,
7 Jan. 2026
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There have been some brief historical exceptions to that state of affairs; the ascendancy of higher education in the years after World War II gave writers a home in the academy that was largely nonexistent before.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Jan. 2026
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Alongside Abela and the now mononymic Myha’la were Harry Lawtey, David Jonsson and Nabhaan Rizwan (all now names very much in the ascendancy — and in the case of Jonsson, a BAFTA rising star winner).—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
5 Jan. 2026
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After her historic 70-year reign came to an end in 2022, Queen Elizabeth's son was crowned king.—
Emma Banks,
InStyle,
7 Jan. 2026
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Browns are Back Gray’s long reign has officially come to an end.—
Sophie Aliece Hollis,
Martha Stewart,
7 Jan. 2026
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“Ascendance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ascendance. Accessed 16 Jan. 2026.
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