How to pronounce “ascendant” in English

It's probably not partying, or going to nightclubs, or something like that.If he had been in politics or in power while Hitler was ascendant, he would have been tossed out of office like everyone else.

we understand where the story lines are going.If I'm George Bush and I say that democracy is an ascendant storyline for the last 250 years, then applying it in Iraq makes a lot of sense because I know the storyline. Thisis democracy. Democracy goes everywhere. But if we look at that from another lens, if I

and father genomes, if you will.And these days, with computers, and algorithms like Markov chain Monte Carlo, and large data, and whatnot, they're actually on the ascendant in statistics.