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ascendancyas‧cen‧dan‧cy, ascendency /əˈsendənsi/ noun [uncountable] formal - The U.S. gained ascendancy after World War II.
- Another political reality is the ascendancy of the Republican Party.
- Certainly there was abundant evidence as to how the centre-left had lost its entrenched intellectual and ideological ascendancy.
- Lilov denied that this demonstrated the ascendancy of party conservatives.
- My view is that he combined two qualities that were, at the time of his ascendancy, regarded as mutually exclusive.
- The former now seem to be in the ascendancy.
- The retreat of Marxism has been paralleled by the ascendancy of the New Right.
- Wolves were very much in the ascendancy after that.
► gained ascendancy He slowly gained ascendancy in the group. a position of power, influence, or control → ascendant: moral ascendancyascendancy of the ascendancy of nationalist forcesascendancy over Butler established ascendancy over his critics. He slowly gained ascendancy in the group.in the ascendancy a teaching method that is currently in the ascendancy |