as in to climb
to move or extend upward
the path ascended so steeply at one point that we had to scramble up on our hands and knees
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Recent Examples of ascend
These are places where children born into low-income families face some of the weakest prospects in the country for ascending the income ladder.
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Mark Mitchell, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
The company’s founder and CEO Kelly Garner brings two decades of narrative content experience from the traditional TV trenches, having produced for CBS, Bravo, and NBC before ascending to executive roles at NBCUniversal and Syfy/USA.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 5 Feb. 2026
King Harald took part in three different editions of the Summer Olympic Games—Tokyo 1964, Mexico City 1968, and Munich in 1972—before ascending to the throne.
—Stefania Conrieri, Vanity Fair, 5 Feb. 2026
The blood trail ascended a 20-foot pile of snow and ice, pushed there by a bulldozer that cleared a road in the village.
—Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 4 Feb. 2026
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Mark Mitchell, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
The company’s founder and CEO Kelly Garner brings two decades of narrative content experience from the traditional TV trenches, having produced for CBS, Bravo, and NBC before ascending to executive roles at NBCUniversal and Syfy/USA.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 5 Feb. 2026
King Harald took part in three different editions of the Summer Olympic Games—Tokyo 1964, Mexico City 1968, and Munich in 1972—before ascending to the throne.
—Stefania Conrieri, Vanity Fair, 5 Feb. 2026
The blood trail ascended a 20-foot pile of snow and ice, pushed there by a bulldozer that cleared a road in the village.
—Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 4 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ascend
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Wing sales rose more than 26% in the Seattle area and climbed about 17% in the Boston area over the past month.—
Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
8 Feb. 2026
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Shares of Nvidia climbed at steep pace, making the AI giant the ninth company in the world to reach a $1 trillion valuation in 2023, three decades after its establishment.—
Rosa de Acosta,
CNN Money,
7 Feb. 2026
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That leads to high temperatures, which create a glowing protostar due to the rapid (kinetic) motion of the internal gas particles, and eventually, after a few tens of millions of years, the core temperatures rise high enough (above 4 million K or so) that nuclear fusion of hydrogen begins.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
6 Feb. 2026
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The information will be incorporated into the NEMO ocean model, which forms part of the UK Earth System Model, improving predictions as polar ice loss accelerates with rising global temperatures.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Feb. 2026
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Over the last 10 years, Colorado has become one of the most energy efficient states in the country, and one of the most unaffordable as the cost of housing has soared.—
Shaun Boyd,
CBS News,
11 Feb. 2026
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Still, while sales of both companies' drugs may soar, prices are coming down across the board.—
Annika Kim Constantino,Elsa Ohlen,
CNBC,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Ascend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ascend. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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