How to pronounce ascent
Listen to ascent in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“ascent” in real sentences
712 clips in the index · 80 American · 407 British · 6 Australian · 1 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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hired following Royal Ascent.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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when it receives royal ascent.
Channel 4 News · hear it here
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as well as an onboard ascent camera.
NASA · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of ascent. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.