ascendant
Example Sentences
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On paper, it all looks fairly obvious—a team that finished the regular season 14-3 against another 14-3 team, two ascendant quarterbacks, two sterling defenses.
Virginia’s Constitution limits the governor to one term, Thomas Jefferson having feared an ascendant executive.
That Lightning & Thunder peaked when Gen Xers were ascendant makes you yearn for Brewer to grapple with how much of their fan base was ironic.
From Los Angeles Times
More than 50 years after debuting at the 1970 Osaka world’s fair with the 17-minute experimental film “Tiger Child,” the format has become the ascendant king of spectacle.
From Los Angeles Times
And it is far from certain that OpenAI will be able to fully live up to its commitments, especially if AI demand falters overall or ascendant challengers like Google and Anthropic supplant ChatGPT’s position.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
