How to Use ascendant in a Sentence

ascendant

adjective

• The never-Trump wing of the GOP is not ascendant -- far from it.
  — Rick Klein, ABC News, 16 Nov. 2021
• Ford stopped making tractors here in 1928 to focus on the launch of the Model A and the threat of the ascendant Chevrolet.
  — Michael Taube, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2021
• For now, the far-right wing of the party is ascendant and sees no need to moderate.
  — Jonathan J. Cooper, ajc, 18 Sep. 2022
• An ascendant law school at George Mason would be part of that plan.
  — Jo Becker, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2023
• Their primeval agenda — decades in the making — is ascendant now.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2022
• At the time, HBO Max was a big ascendant streaming service and it’s still got pretty great s— on it.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2022
• More than three years after the ascendant New York drill rapper Pop Smoke was shot and killed, a now-18-year-old has confessed to the killing.
  — Vulture, 15 May 2023
• Nine years ago, headlined by Paul at point guard, the Clippers were ascendant.
  — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
• The talking heads from the opinion shows played a minor role, save ascendant Greg Gutfeld.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2022
• And which ascendant country artist might be next to follow in his chart footsteps?
  — Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 18 Jan. 2023
• What drew Kim, Okazaki, Pan, and others to lie wasn’t a predictably ascendant path.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2022
• 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
• His style and raspy growl are reminiscent of Pop Smoke, the ascendant drill star who was killed in 2020 just as his star was rising.
  — Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 6 July 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
• Toward the end of the century, Wilson achieved renown in the newly ascendant field of ecology.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Oct. 2021
• Minnesota’s reward is to face the fun and ascendant Grizzlies.
  — New York Times, 16 Apr. 2022
• But that may not be true for the latest ascendant Omicron subvariant, BA.2.12.1.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2022
• As the nation recovers, an ascendant right wing blames the crisis on China.
  — Vulture, 27 Sep. 2022
• Even as immigration to the US declined, the idea that the country was a nation of immigrants was ascendant.
  — Reece Jones, CNN, 27 Oct. 2021
• Become a Subscriber Among the many things to hate about air travel, the processing of cabin luggage is ascendant.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2024
• BuzzFeed is merely the most dramatic example of the risks of hitching yourself to the whims of an ascendant tech platform.
  — Sam Venis, The New Republic, 30 July 2023
• No one doubts that the attack, and his ascendant profile, profoundly reshaped him.
  — Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
• TikTok is, arguably, the ascendant platform for news online, so being there makes sense.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2024
• The lines in the opening verse start primarily with an ascendant passage, ending in a flood of syllables.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 29 Nov. 2022
• For young people who have known only an ascendant China, a strident posture toward the rest of the world may feel natural.
  — Vivian Wang, New York Times, 27 Oct. 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
• 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
• That trend could be tested in a year where conservative voters may be ascendant.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 8 Nov. 2022
• Meta, Amazon, and Netflix are no longer among the crowd of ascendant outfits, owing largely to the industry-wide slowdown in tech finances.
  — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2022
• Far-right parties are also ascendant in France, Germany, Belgium, and Spain.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 9 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024