The state that exists when one person or group has power over another.
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Global competition from emerging nations is threatening the ascendancy of American corporations.
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If Bunnings rises into the ascendancy, it will have unrivalled market power.
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Fear is the result of the body assuming ascendancy over the soul.
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Few would have predicted their ascendancy into second place on the ladder.
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Almost from the beginning he usurped an ascendancy over the little household.
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They regrouped after conceding the early try and slowly gained the ascendancy.
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General Beker, overcome by the ascendancy of his prisoner, set off immediately.
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The Empire had been taken to mean racial ascendancy and trade profit.
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But they improved and after half an hour, were in the ascendancy.
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Zoraya soon acquired complete ascendancy over the mind of Muley Abul Hassan.
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She stinted his education, in order to maintain her ascendancy over him.
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Apple's ascendancy shows that closing off your ecosystem can translate into profits.
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Sciver's half-century came from 58 balls as England moved into the ascendancy.
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It was a spell in which the Dutch were in the ascendancy.
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She therefore returned and exercised her old ascendancy over him once more.
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It was in her family that Victoria's ascendancy reached its highest point.
