- ahold
- all's well that ends well idiom
- all-powerful
- authoritarianism
- be above someone's pay grade idiom
- big beast
- cradle
- discretionary
- he who pays the piper calls the tune. idiom
- hegemonic
- hegemonism
- hegemony
- implant
- power structure
- power struggle
- power vacuum
- predominance
- puissance
- sway
- the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world idiom
Meaning of ascendancy in English
Examples of ascendancy
ascendancy
Historically, religions undergo enormous transformations as one strain of belief and practice gains ascendancy over another.
From Foreign Policy
With his ascendancy, the company's engineers will reign unchallenged -- not that they had much trouble before.
From VentureBeat
But they gradually lost the unchallenged intellectual ascendancy, though not the prestige, they once had enjoyed.
From Heritage.org
The ascendancy of each individual defines the prosperity of our society; hence, education is the backbone of a continuously developing society.
From Huffington Post
Eschewing paper signs or rude interruptions, they seemed content to pass the time with the sort of cool confidence that accompanies a sense of ascendancy.
From TIME
This is why the populist ascendancy will not simply vanish after one election cycle -- even if the economy is fixed.
From Washington Times
The ascendancy of angry bluster isn't the problem; it's a symptom.
From The Atlantic
Before his ascendancy, it had been customary to infer the "intent" of the legislature from committee reports and statements by the measure's sponsors.
From The Atlantic
Instead, they say, it's more likely their chicken-size, flight-capable ancestors enjoyed a window of evolutionary ascendancy about 60 million years ago, after dinosaurs died out and before mammals grew big.
From Huffington Post
E-commerce businesses are in the ascendancy.
From Business Insider
All of these actors are trying to navigate an environment that has become increasingly challenging, with studios and directors in such ascendancy that stars often seem like an afterthought.
From Hollywood Reporter
As an image or metaphor for height, the mihrab in this verse becomes the lady's attribute of honor and ascendancy.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
His flinty ascendancy undergirded the birth of a new nation that immediately withstood two severe tests.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
We can therefore observe a process that produced the same political-administrative result in many provinces—the ascendancy of local elites—but different, if not contradictory, social ones.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
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yükselme, tırmanma, güce ulaşma…
ascendant…
overwicht…
nadvláda, převaha…
overtag, overlegenhed, herredømme…
kekuasaan, pengaruh…
อำนาจ (เหนือ)…
uy lực…
dominacja, kontrola…
herravälde, kontroll, makt…
kuasa…
Vormachtstellung (über)…
kontroll, makt, herredømme…
перевага, влада над чимсь…
восхождение…
