ascendent in the PONS Dictionary

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The music is strict but playful, uniform but discursive, realistic but ascendent, and traditionalist.
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Expectations are high, he writes, that garment stitching will become this ascendent nation's "driving force" in the manufacturing sector.
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There is little doubt which was in the ascendent this year, and the finale was perhaps the hardest hitting episode of all.
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But he was also ascendent.
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When the tariff question came up again in 1842, the compromise of 1833 was overthrown, and the protective system placed in the ascendent.
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In the trio sonata, there is often no ascendent or solo instrument, but all three instruments share equal importance.
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The suburbs were ascendent, and cities, to survive, were trying to copy them.
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All told, $250 billion was invested in clean energy, and the amount of power the sector generated thereafter came to equal natural gas -- the other supposedly ascendent energy source.
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The apical meristem of the rhizome forms an ascendent swollen stem called a pseudobulb, and the apical meristem is consumed in a terminal inflorescence.
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