ascendant

Example Sentences

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Just a handful of years ago, the left was ascendant, with its candidates winning presidencies in one country after the other: Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Colombia and Brazil.

From Los Angeles Times

Outside of the confines of the silver screen, we know that half the world banded together to make those grinning and ascendant fascists eat dirt.

From Salon

Brian Wilson’s death on Wednesday at the age of 82 heralds an end to one idea of Southern California — as the temperate paradise of ascendant Americana.

From Los Angeles Times

Such seemingly minor adjustments matter, it seems to me, because the ascendant worldview in the US at present is a profoundly, intensely de-animating one.

From Salon

The inescapable conclusion is that Kennedy’s HHS is in the grip of a pseudoscience revolution in which misinformation and disinformation are ascendant.

From Los Angeles Times