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The deal also includes media rights for the ascendant WNBA, with all three broadcasters offering regular season and playoff games for the women’s pro basketball league.
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Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 24 July 2024
Neil Mockford/Alex Huckle Too often associated with ascendant Disney stars in weird newsies caps–see: Hilary Duff and Ashley Tisdale in the mid-Aughts–the skinny scarf is being rehabilitated by a new wave of designers old enough to have lived through the first iteration of the trend.
—Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 27 Sep. 2024
Advertisement More than four years later, Harris is the nation’s most ascendant Black politician since Barack Obama, and her candor in 2020 is colliding with her ambition to lead a nation that has shifted decidedly to the right on issues of policing and public safety.
—Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
As a sign of Jiang’s ascendant star, fans have gone so far as to visit her parents’ home in a village in Jiangsu, bearing gifts of alcohol and money to show their support.
—Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 22 June 2024
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Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 24 July 2024
Neil Mockford/Alex Huckle Too often associated with ascendant Disney stars in weird newsies caps–see: Hilary Duff and Ashley Tisdale in the mid-Aughts–the skinny scarf is being rehabilitated by a new wave of designers old enough to have lived through the first iteration of the trend.
—Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 27 Sep. 2024
Advertisement More than four years later, Harris is the nation’s most ascendant Black politician since Barack Obama, and her candor in 2020 is colliding with her ambition to lead a nation that has shifted decidedly to the right on issues of policing and public safety.
—Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
As a sign of Jiang’s ascendant star, fans have gone so far as to visit her parents’ home in a village in Jiangsu, bearing gifts of alcohol and money to show their support.
—Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 22 June 2024
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“Ascendant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ascendant. Accessed 18 Nov. 2024.
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