ascent
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Like crypto firms, prediction markets have faced controversy during their ascent.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Karol came of age during the ascent of reggaeton and Latin club music as a new default in pop, and the first third of the show played to those uncompromising but crowd-pleasing strengths.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
He is heir to no name, but the pure product of social ascent.
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026
Her unsteady ascent toward womanhood coincides, hysterically, with the theater company’s descent into chaos.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
Her urgent need was to figure out how to get past the nest, using its important handhold, and to the steplike rock protrusions that would be the means of her final ascent to the top.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
Vocabulary lists containing ascent
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This Week in Words: October 28 - November 3, 2017
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The Glass Menagerie
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