ascending order
Americannoun
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The stocks are listed in ascending order of Ebitda growth rates.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
Was he ranking that in ascending order of importance?
From Slate ● Mar. 21, 2026
On notes circulating currently, in ascending order of value, are former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, author Jane Austen, artist JMW Turner and mathematician and wartime codebreaker Alan Turing.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
Officials with the same rank are sorted by how their names are written—starting with the number of strokes in their surname, in ascending order.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026
The horizontal rows, meanwhile, arrange the chemicals in ascending order by the number of protons in their nuclei–what is known as their atomic number.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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