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ascension as in:  ascension to the throne

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    Beyond the gate was a steep ascension of spiral stairs.  (source)
    ascension = movement upward--literal or figurative
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    Harold Crosby, delaying his ascension in the often-faulty angel-apparatus, had twice requested a "last" visit to the men's room.  (source)
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    I explained why we needed to wake the sun god—the threat of Apophis's ascension, mass chaos and destruction, the world about to end at sunrise, et cetera.  (source)
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    The book of Acts flashed into my head, the scene of Jesus' ascension, when Jesus told the disciples that they would be his witnesses, that they would tell people all over the world about him.  (source)
    ascension = movement upward--literal or figurative
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    Annie had congratulated her on her transparency, on her ascension, as Annie put it, but then had become very busy.  (source)
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    Finnick goes back to Snow's political ascension, which I know nothing of, and works his way up to the present, pointing out case after case of the mysterious deaths of Snow's adversaries or, even worse, his allies who had the potential to become threats.  (source)
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    So this terrifying ascension was most difficult for him, perched as he was on the neck of the giant.  (source)
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    Opposition to the war, as everyone knew, was stronger and more vociferous in London than anywhere in the country, yet here were crowds greater than any since his ascension to the throne.  (source)
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    She surveyed the waiting audience, then said, "The elves honor Ajihad tonight...And on behalf of Queen Islanzadi, I recognize Nasuada's ascension and offer her the same support and friendship we extended to her father."  (source)
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    She was not seen to cry during the ascension to heaven of Remedios the Beauty or over the extermination of the Aurelianos or the death of Colonel Aureliano Buendia, who was the person she loved most in this world, although she showed it only when they found his body under the chestnut tree.  (source)
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    His ascension has been unlikely.  (source)
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    The leader of this coalition was a man named Laurent-Désiré Kabila, a former Marxist rebel who had been educated in France and was, until his rapid ascension to power, a relative unknown in Congo.  (source)
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    But she has also enjoyed the birth of two healthy children, Caroline and John Jr., and the stunning ascension of her dashing young husband from a Massachusetts politician to president of the United States.  (source)
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Ascension as in:  Ascension holiday

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According to Christian belief, Ascension celebrates Jesus' rise to heaven the 40th day after his resurrection.
Ascension = Christian holiday
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    She attended the special service held for Ascension Day.
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    So after Ascension Day I keep them recta* an extra hour every Wednesday.  (source)
    Ascension Day = Christianity:  celebration of the rising of Christ into heaven
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    ...on the last feast of the Ascension, to wit, the twelfth day of May of...  (source)
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    Presumably, the bells of the Church of the Ascension had been reclaimed by the Bolsheviks for the manufacture of artillery, thus returning them to the realm from whence they came.  (source)
    Ascension = part of a name
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    Ascension, in its world premiere at the Nelly Regina Theater, is the stunning debut by choreographer Petra Echevarri, recent graduate of Juilliard and winner of the Princess Grace Award.  (source)
    Ascension = a name in this novel
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    Rubber Plant: The Ascension, it's called.  (source)
    Ascension = physical movement upward to heaven
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    Another inventor, J. B. McComber, representing the Chicago-Tower Spiral-Spring Ascension and Toboggan Transportation Company, proposed a tower with a height of 8,947 feet, nearly nine times the height of the Eiffel Tower, with a base one thousand feet in diameter sunk two thousand feet into the earth.  (source)
    Ascension = part of a name
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    Planes arrived for Milo from airfields in Italy, North Africa and England, and from Air Transport Command stations in Liberia, Ascension Island, Cairo, and Karachi.  (source)
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    Ascension to a paradise that in one version was merely "a feeling," a sense of power, of unassailable superiority-sensations that in another version were transposed into "A red place."  (source)
    Ascension = physical movement upward or to heaven
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    The nuns told her it was like a Holy Ascension except Papi was dressed to go dancing.  (source)
    Ascension = physical movement upward to heaven
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    Tia Concha became Aunt Conchshell, and Tia Asuncion, Aunt Ascension; Tio Mundo was Uncle World; Paloma, our model cousin, turned into Pigeon, and for spite we surnamed her, accurately, Toed.  (source)
    Ascension = part of a name
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    "Have you been to the Church of the Ascension?" he suddenly asked him, with stern emphasis.  (source)
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    He was referring to the fresco of the "Ascension of St. John."  (source)
    Ascension = physical movement upward
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    Mother Ascension, who is as strong as a man, will help you.  (source)
    Ascension = part of a name
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    The gaunt oak-cased clock, with the picture of the Ascension on the door-panel and the Miraculous Draught of Fishes on the base; his grandmother's corner cupboard with the glass door, through which the spotted china was visible; the dumb-waiter; the wooden tea-trays; the hanging fountain with the brass tap—whither would these venerable articles have to be banished?  (source)
    Ascension = physical movement upward to heaven
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    On the Ascension Avenue there lived a barber of the name of Ivan Jakovlevitch.  (source)
    Ascension = part of a name
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