Antonyms for descendingde·scend·ing

Princeton's WordNet

1. descending(a)adjective

   coming down or downward

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1. Fulton County:

   It seemed like we were descending into this third-world mentality, i never expected that out of this country.

2. Vivek Murthy:

   It was a stressful period where people were worried and staff members were concerned about this pandemic that was descending on our country, the way he would run meetings and to both chart out a path forward, reassure people, his calmness in the face of serious adversity and uncertainty -- those are invaluable qualities that he brought to the operation.

3. Benjamin Franklin:

   Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost more than five ships of the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense as that 10,000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?

4. Governor Andrew Cuomo:

   Our behavior affects the number of cases, they are not descending on us from heaven.

5. Ekaterina Schulmann:

   [ The government ] is scared to make people angry, scared to leave people without bread, which will make them even angrier, people have seen a constant decline in income since 2014, support for the president has been descending since 2018. It is risky to push people even further.

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