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How to pronounce “ascendancy”
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Pronunciation guide for ascendancy
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of ascendancy with real speech in context.
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- Real speech example
- Responding to Racism, White People's Role & Responsibility
And we then, in 1974, the same year, had a gangster come to ascendancy in 1974.
- Definition summary
- The quality of being in the ascendant; dominant control, supremacy.
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How to pronounce ascendancy
Responding to Racism, White People's Role & Responsibility
And we then, in 1974, the same year, had a gangster come to ascendancy in 1974.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “ascendancy”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- The quality of being in the ascendant; dominant control, supremacy.
- (historical, Ireland, sometimes capitalized) Ellipsis of Protestant Ascendancy, a class of Protestant landowners and professionals that dominated political and social life in Ireland up to the early 20th century.
- (ecology) A quantitative attribute of an ecosystem, defined as a function of the ecosystem's trophic network, and intended to indicate its ability to prevail against disturbance by virtue of its combined organization and size. [from 1986]
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