ascendant

We were lucky in that it was an ascendant business at the time.

In the soft glow of morning cafés, I see it everywhere: oatmeal, ascendant.

The NFL has become ascendant, with a 2023 Pew Research Center survey finding that, by a wide margin, Americans considered football to be “America’s sport.”

Manager Dave Roberts stayed in the dugout, trusting his ascendant staff ace to pitch the team to a championship.

Dictators and rogue states would be ascendant, nuclear weapons would proliferate, and the president-elect would never make good on his bluster about ending the war in Ukraine in 24 hours.