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Online multiplayer gamesThe popularity of various multiplayer games waxes and wanes.

Since the portions are wrapped in wax paper, they can be easily separated.

The faster the economy is waxing, the more profitable new investments become, and the more companies compete for the capital needed to fund those investments.

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Flushing out every bit of it means there’s nothing to attract dirt, and it also makes room for the wax to penetrate and bond to the chain.

Lay chain in the pot, on top of the wax, as flat as possible.

Place the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt on parchment or wax paper.

Alastair Sim had jowls like melting candle wax, a snarl like a cornered cat and eyes cold with contempt.

Inside the wax floored examining room, I sat up on the powder blue table with my shirt off.

I promised never again to wax lyrical about the fries in gravy.

Full disclosure: I briefly worked for Torres at his current magazine, Wax Poetics.

Her eldest daughter married in America, and was well known as a modeller in wax in New York.

At length only four or five flames remained, feebly wavering in their pools of melted wax.

Two many-branched candelabra, holding wax lights, brilliantly illuminate the game.

Tories will wax eloquent on "the pink miasma of revolutionary Radicalism."

Frulein Timm belongs to the single sisterhood, but is one of the fresh and placid kind, and as neat as wax.

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On this page you'll find 121 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to wax, such as: augment, become, build, come, develop, and dilate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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