ascend

It would be classic stubborn baseball to ascend the summit and slide right off it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

You ascend quickly via its glass elevator, and the Endeavour and its components shift in size and sensation as you climb.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Our tendency to ascend and reach higher places may reflect a deep ancestral relationship with trees that extends beyond anatomy alone.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

But what some perceive as a negative makes the Green Lantern legend appealing to others, especially those driven to ascend through ambition and hard work.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

And the hair twined and blew and became a ladder upon which the guests might ascend, laughing, into the House.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

Roborock’s Saros Rover robot vacuum has two legs and can climb stairs, cleaning each step as it ascends.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026

When magma ascends from deep within Earth, it can make the ground shake.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2025

Jim MacLeod, 24, his older brother Glen and a friend had climbed the challenging mountaineer’s route, which ascends the east face.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2025

Youssef also urged him to be wary of islands, and to say no if he were to be inexplicably invited to one as he ascends into the realm of American politics.

From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2025

And a noise like a shrunken scream descends and ascends around us.

From "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling

He soon ascended from nonfactor to legitimate contender.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

At the Texas event, Tesla set up a gigantic C-shaped ramp, and the Roadster ascended to the top of the curve.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

When Bunch ascended to his top job in 2019, he was celebrated as the first African-American and first historian in the Secretary role—his 13 predecessors all hailed from scientific, business or legal fields.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

King Oyo ascended the throne in 1995 and became an international curiosity because of his young age.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Virginia Tucker, who had ascended to the position of head computer, ran Langley’s entire computing operation of over two hundred women, and supervised Margery Hannah and the other section heads.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

In 2004, she won a seat in the state Legislature, ascending to the position of Assembly speaker just as the state was hit with a massive budget crisis brought on by a global economic downturn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

For the last 31 years, it has been headed by King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV, who was once known as a "boy king", after ascending to the throne as an infant.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

The 30-year Treasury rate shows a similar bullish technical pattern, an ascending triangle, with the top resistance level at 5.35%, and the 30-year is already trading above that resistance.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026

Here are a few of my current “one nice things,” roughly in ascending order of effort:

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026

While Hermann Muller’s scientific work was ascending to its zenith in Texas, his personal life was falling apart.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee