How to Use ascendant in a Sentence

ascendant

1 of 2 noun

• Like Burton in ’64, the 40-year-old’s star is in the ascendant.
  — Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 3 Apr. 2023
• The ruler of the ascendant is Jupiter, which is located in the first house.
  — Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 13 Aug. 2020
• The key difference between the queen and the queen consort is that the queen is an ascendant to the throne through succession.
  — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2022
• The unique placement of the planets in the houses is determined by your rising sign, also known as your ascendant.
  — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 4 July 2021
• Lang explains that the rare hybrid solar eclipse occurring on April 19 is in alignment with Harry’s ascendant in Libra and descendant in Aries—points in one’s birth chart that relate to the axis line between the self and other.
  — Naydeline Mejia, Women's Health, 29 Apr. 2023
• Also, her Capricorn ascendant showed a person with a tremendous amount of stamina, who was (quite literally) born to be an authority figure in life.
  — Women's Health, 4 May 2023
• There are some deeper personality traits that come into play with Cancer ascendants, too.
  — Lisa Stardust, Women's Health, 5 Mar. 2023
• That election cycle was notable because Cuomo overcame a primary challenge from the actress Cynthia Nixon, who targeted him from the ascendant left.
  — Ross Barkan, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
• With e-commerce ascendant, nearly everyone else in the retailing, from venerable department stores to once-trendy clothiers like J. Crew, has been struggling to grow or even survive.
  — Chad Bray and Michael J. De La Merced, New York Times, 6 July 2017
• There has been a fundamental shift in the way electricity is generated in the United States, with cleaner energy sources such as natural gas, wind and solar power ascendant.
  — New York Times, 2 June 2018
• The fast-ascendant baritone Jarrett Ott, as Seward, mastered a demanding tessitura and vividly conveyed the character’s arrogance and agony.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
• The muted interest reflects how DeSantis is having a harder time dominating the political conversation on the right, after appearing ascendant in the run-up to the 2022 elections.
  — Mackenzie Mays, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2023
• Like Burton in ’64, the 40-year-old’s star is in the ascendant.
  — Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 3 Apr. 2023
• The ruler of the ascendant is Jupiter, which is located in the first house.
  — Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 13 Aug. 2020
• The key difference between the queen and the queen consort is that the queen is an ascendant to the throne through succession.
  — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2022
• The unique placement of the planets in the houses is determined by your rising sign, also known as your ascendant.
  — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 4 July 2021
• Lang explains that the rare hybrid solar eclipse occurring on April 19 is in alignment with Harry’s ascendant in Libra and descendant in Aries—points in one’s birth chart that relate to the axis line between the self and other.
  — Naydeline Mejia, Women's Health, 29 Apr. 2023
• Also, her Capricorn ascendant showed a person with a tremendous amount of stamina, who was (quite literally) born to be an authority figure in life.
  — Women's Health, 4 May 2023
• There are some deeper personality traits that come into play with Cancer ascendants, too.
  — Lisa Stardust, Women's Health, 5 Mar. 2023
• That election cycle was notable because Cuomo overcame a primary challenge from the actress Cynthia Nixon, who targeted him from the ascendant left.
  — Ross Barkan, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
• With e-commerce ascendant, nearly everyone else in the retailing, from venerable department stores to once-trendy clothiers like J. Crew, has been struggling to grow or even survive.
  — Chad Bray and Michael J. De La Merced, New York Times, 6 July 2017
• There has been a fundamental shift in the way electricity is generated in the United States, with cleaner energy sources such as natural gas, wind and solar power ascendant.
  — New York Times, 2 June 2018
• The fast-ascendant baritone Jarrett Ott, as Seward, mastered a demanding tessitura and vividly conveyed the character’s arrogance and agony.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
• The muted interest reflects how DeSantis is having a harder time dominating the political conversation on the right, after appearing ascendant in the run-up to the 2022 elections.
  — Mackenzie Mays, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2023

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ascendant

2 of 2 adjective

• The never-Trump wing of the GOP is not ascendant -- far from it.
  — Rick Klein, ABC News, 16 Nov. 2021
• Ford stopped making tractors here in 1928 to focus on the launch of the Model A and the threat of the ascendant Chevrolet.
  — Michael Taube, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2021
• For now, the far-right wing of the party is ascendant and sees no need to moderate.
  — Jonathan J. Cooper, ajc, 18 Sep. 2022
• An ascendant law school at George Mason would be part of that plan.
  — Jo Becker, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2023
• Their primeval agenda — decades in the making — is ascendant now.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2022
• At the time, HBO Max was a big ascendant streaming service and it’s still got pretty great s— on it.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2022
• More than three years after the ascendant New York drill rapper Pop Smoke was shot and killed, a now-18-year-old has confessed to the killing.
  — Vulture, 15 May 2023
• Nine years ago, headlined by Paul at point guard, the Clippers were ascendant.
  — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
• The talking heads from the opinion shows played a minor role, save ascendant Greg Gutfeld.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2022
• And which ascendant country artist might be next to follow in his chart footsteps?
  — Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 18 Jan. 2023
• What drew Kim, Okazaki, Pan, and others to lie wasn’t a predictably ascendant path.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2022
• This is an ascendant team that now gets to play on home soil in what could be a transcendent tournament in 2026.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Dec. 2022
• His style and raspy growl are reminiscent of Pop Smoke, the ascendant drill star who was killed in 2020 just as his star was rising.
  — Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 6 July 2022
• If Chapek’s strategy proves right, then long live the ascendant king—and off with the unprofitable peasants.
  — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2022
• Toward the end of the century, Wilson achieved renown in the newly ascendant field of ecology.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Oct. 2021
• Minnesota’s reward is to face the fun and ascendant Grizzlies.
  — New York Times, 16 Apr. 2022
• But that may not be true for the latest ascendant Omicron subvariant, BA.2.12.1.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2022
• As the nation recovers, an ascendant right wing blames the crisis on China.
  — Vulture, 27 Sep. 2022
• Even as immigration to the US declined, the idea that the country was a nation of immigrants was ascendant.
  — Reece Jones, CNN, 27 Oct. 2021
• Become a Subscriber Among the many things to hate about air travel, the processing of cabin luggage is ascendant.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2024
• BuzzFeed is merely the most dramatic example of the risks of hitching yourself to the whims of an ascendant tech platform.
  — Sam Venis, The New Republic, 30 July 2023
• No one doubts that the attack, and his ascendant profile, profoundly reshaped him.
  — Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
• TikTok is, arguably, the ascendant platform for news online, so being there makes sense.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2024
• The lines in the opening verse start primarily with an ascendant passage, ending in a flood of syllables.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 29 Nov. 2022
• For young people who have known only an ascendant China, a strident posture toward the rest of the world may feel natural.
  — Vivian Wang, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• Your rising sign, also known as your ascendant sign, is calculated based on the exact time of your birth on your birthday.
  — Glamour, 27 May 2022
• Just one thing only seems capable of threatening the late-season prospects of a team that has enough talent to be truly ascendant.
  — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2022
• That trend could be tested in a year where conservative voters may be ascendant.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 8 Nov. 2022
• Meta, Amazon, and Netflix are no longer among the crowd of ascendant outfits, owing largely to the industry-wide slowdown in tech finances.
  — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2022
• Far-right parties are also ascendant in France, Germany, Belgium, and Spain.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 9 Oct. 2022

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