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ascendant

[uh-sen-duhnt] / əˈsɛn dənt /




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Garth Brooks, Zach Top and Riley Green will headline 2027’s Stagecoach country music festival, organizers announced Monday, bringing together one of the genre’s veteran standard-bearers with two of Nashville’s ascendant stars.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2026

Acme wasn’t exactly made for the ascendant financial heights reachable only by Spider-Man.

From Slate Sep. 1, 2026

Yet the coalition of the ascendant soon lost altitude.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

George W. Bush attended the spectacular opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, a highly symbolic display of ambition by an ascendant China.

From Barron's May 15, 2026

All that arcane business about planets ascendant in this or that solar or lunar “house” or the “Age of Aquarius” comes from Ptolemy, who codified the Babylonian astrological tradition.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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