ascendancy

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as‧cen‧dan‧cy , ascendency /əˈsendənsi/ noun [UNCOUNTABLE] formal
a position of power, influence, or control ⇨ ascendant:
　 ▪ moral ascendancy
ascendancy of
　 ▪ the ascendancy of nationalist forces
ascendancy 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

noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The U.S. gained ascendancy after World War II.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ 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.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendency, control