Vocabulary
Ascendant
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
rising in power or influence.
Urdu meaning
غلبہ پانا، عروج،غالب
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- In brief, India has been left in a supplicant`s position before both the existing and ascendant superpower.
- It would come as no surprise if China, an ascendant power, would want to exert its influence from this platform of soft power to promote its own worldview in the aftermath of the US exit.
- Ascendant economies will see this as an opportunity for furthering their interests and staffing vacant posi-tions with their own nationals.
- The ascendant forces of oligarchy and autocracy must be defeated through concerted, non-violent grassroots movements.
- We also hope to get more global support after the war against a still globally ascendant India.
Synonyms
rising (in power), in the ascendant, on the up and up, on the way up, up-and-coming
Curator example
“the newly ascendant liberal party”
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