ascendency in the PONS Dictionary

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Ascendency is derived using mathematical tools from information theory.
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That is, ascendency can be used to identify which resource is limiting the functioning of each component of the ecosystem.
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Unsurprisingly, the away side are back in the ascendency.
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Identifying himself with the mining interest, he began to acquire that ascendency in the local politics of the goldfields' city, which he for many years maintained.
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This has been the case from the dawning of modern commerce to the present day, although there have been periods where one or the other school had gained temporary ascendency.
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Online fraud is on the ascendency, as cyber criminals become sophisticated in their approach.
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Athletic are looking to continue their ascendency from last season where they made the final in two different competitions.
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This was caused by political hostilities from the opposition just a week after your ascendency to the high office.
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A promising scholar, he was made a regent of the college, and remained there until the reformers gained the ascendency.
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Obviously, while these different styles of consciousness may co-exist to some extent each has had a time of ascendency.
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