Washington Irving

Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.

American Writer

Dean Potter

Free soloing is just the most natural way man can climb. It's just using your hands and feet without any use of protection or rope to ascend.

American Athlete

Jay-Z

I think it's very important for hip-hop, when an artist reaches a certain level, to ascend to executive work.

American Musician

Thiago Silva

When I do not play, I cannot ascend to the top level and, if I am only at 90 per cent, I cannot help my team.

Brazilian Athlete

Robert Louis Stevenson

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

Scottish Writer

Rudolf Steiner

Only a person who has passed through the gate of humility can ascend to the heights of the spirit.

Austrian Philosopher

William Shakespeare

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

English Playwright

Michael Ball

I have far ascended beyond every ambition my 16-year-old self ever had.

English Actor

Erich Fromm

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.

American Psychologist

John Greenleaf Whittier

I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together.

American Poet

Use 'ascend' for physical movement upwards, like climbing stairs or hills.

Physical Movement

'Ascend' often implies a gradual or effortful progression, not a sudden movement.

Slow Progress

Use 'ascend' metaphorically to describe increasing numbers or importance.

Figurative Growth

'Ascend' can suggest positive growth or improvement in situations.

Positive Connotation

'Ascend' can refer to upward career movement or promotion.

Career Advancement

Use 'ascend' in contexts where there is a clear hierarchy or ranking.

Hierarchy Context

'Ascend' has a special meaning in religious texts, often related to the afterlife.

Heavenly Ascension

In spiritual discussions, 'ascend' might symbolize moving to a higher state of consciousness.

Spiritual Journey

In aviation, 'ascend' describes an aircraft's climb into the sky.

Technical Aviation

'Ascend' in space contexts usually refers to a launch sequence.

Space Exploration

 just an aging mortal with really bad knees and you know maybe he's never going to ascend to that height again and maybe nobody will ever chant God's name again as he spins and what is he then to do with the rest of his life this is hard this is one of the most painful reconciliations to make in a creative

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 universities found that a participants judgement of the direction of moving dots on a screen could be disrupted by playing them ascending and descending musical scales and researchers in the Netherlands found that playing particularly happy or sad music to individuals could change their

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 and having a vision of a spacecraft taking off from the valley below and ascending into the heavens. And he decided then and there that he would commit the rest of his life to the development of the spacecraft that he saw in his mind's eye. And he did exactly that.

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 He's just an aging mortal with really bad knees, and maybe he's never going to ascend to that height again. And maybe nobody will ever chant God's name again as he spins, and what is he then to do with the rest of his life? This is hard.

 or human lungs, will compress as they descend deeper and expand as they ascend. After a fish bites a fisherman's hook and is quickly reeled up to the surface, the air in its swim bladder begins to expand.

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 But for the remainder, she would stay in the world of the dead. When Persephone ascended to Earth, she and her mother rejoiced. Together, they showered the fields with rain and nurtured them with sun.

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 a day in the life for all geladas begins on the edges of the cliff in the morning they wake up with the sunrise and slowly ascend kind of to the edge of the high plateau they'll spend an hour or maybe

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 wrote a series of poems in praise of Howard's clouds, which ended with the memorable lines, "As clouds ascend, are folded, scatter, fall, Let the world think of thee who taught it all,"

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 are hidden he must try to recall two to nine in ascending order it takes me ages to remember where they're all placed and

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 times to mark the four stages of life the fourth and final day brings - inna to the cusp of womanhood she ascends the

Ascend

To move upward, go up, or go towards the top.

To increase in amount, value, or importance.

To move from a lower position or rank to a higher one.

In a religious context, to move up to heaven.

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In an aircraft or spacecraft, to go up into the air or into space.

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Physical Movement

Slow Progress

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