Ascender

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Ascender

An informal term for a stock or other security that has risen in price over a given period. For example, if a stock opens at $5.00 and closes at $5.25, it is said to be an ascender for that trading day. See also: Decliner.
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Quasimodo ascended the tower staircase for the sake of ascending it, for the sake of seeing why the priest was ascending it.
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They had now ascended to a great height above the level of the plains, yet they beheld huge crags of granite piled one upon another, and beetling like battlements far above them.
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For a little distance we ascended by snow upon the ARE^TE--that is, the ridge--then turned over to the right, or northern side.
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