ascend
Example Sentences
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The companies are ranked by each score and then ranked again by the ascending ratios of growth rank/value rank.
From MarketWatch
As the rover ascends, the landscape increasingly shows signs that water gradually disappeared over time, although occasional wetter periods allowed rivers and lakes to return.
From Science Daily
On notes circulating currently, in ascending order of value, are former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, author Jane Austen, artist JMW Turner and mathematician and wartime codebreaker Alan Turing.
From BBC
The current crop on circulating notes, in ascending order of note value, are Sir Winston Churchill, Jane Austen, JMW Turner and Alan Turing.
From BBC
He suggested accusers might have come forward because the broker brothers hurt people’s feelings, particularly when they were ascending professionally.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
