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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The U.S. gained ascendancy after World War II.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another political reality is the ascendancy of the Republican Party.
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Certainly there was abundant evidence as to how the centre-left had lost its entrenched intellectual and ideological ascendancy .
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Lilov denied that this demonstrated the ascendancy of party conservatives.
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My view is that he combined two qualities that were, at the time of his ascendancy , regarded as mutually exclusive.
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The former now seem to be in the ascendancy .
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The retreat of Marxism has been paralleled by the ascendancy of the New Right.
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Wolves were very much in the ascendancy after that.