ascendent

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As far back as 1985, when the people-are-a-burden ideology was ascendent, Julian predicted China’s coming labor shortage.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

If it is ascendent depressive tunes with a musical theater sensibility you’re after, well, you’ve found it!

From Seattle Times • Mar. 31, 2024

But that willingness dries up temporarily in the face of new indictments, as their ascendent emotion is defensiveness.

From Salon • Aug. 22, 2023

Who needs patronage from Visa, Amazon, and Apple when there’s a suite of companies built to serve the specific inclinations of the ascendent Twitch generation?

From The Verge • Jun. 29, 2022

So far the star of La Bourdonnais was in the ascendent; but the terms which he exacted from the conquered town were, by their very moderation, the means of his undoing.

From A History of the Four Georges, Volume II by McCarthy, Justin