ascendancy

They were in the ascendancy after bowling India out for 150 within two sessions on the opening day, but fluffed the advantage by being dismissed for 104.

"They need to keep that momentum. Right now, the ascendancy is with Liverpool. Liverpool play Man City in a couple of weeks," he added.

Their sound was an anomaly during the ascendancy of punk rock, and they struggled to get gigs outside London.

Female ascendancy is a force of history too powerful, with too much momentum — built up after centuries of slow progress and a few decades of revolutionary tsunami.

But it feels like a new generation of stars, ones who are arguably more familiar to Gen Z festivalgoers, are in the ascendancy this year.