wax

The casting process involves making a new wax mold from scratch each time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

"I just couldn't believe. It was like going to Madame Tussauds but the wax was animated and you could interact with the wax and it talked back to you, it was absolutely mad."

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

He spent $500 on some essentials—including wax, soap, a vacuum cleaner—and honed his skills by watching instructional videos on YouTube.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

These chambers provide unique wax, warmer conditions, and dedicated care that help guide a larva's development into a healthy queen.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026

I pull a candle close to me and push the soft wax at the top of it into the blue flame.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson

At an impromptu press conference last week, US President Donald Trump waxed lyrical about his helipad, his ballroom and his granite paving stones.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

Enthusiasm for growing the library has waxed and waned over the years.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

I had also recently waxed poetic about compound butter during a live discussion on summer entertaining.

From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026

U.S. lettuce production has waxed and waned over the past decade but remains massive, at around 10 billion pounds annually.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

They weaved through a row of twinkling starpost stationery, which waxed and waned like the stars themselves.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

Most significantly, Flanner reported from the trials at Nuremberg, writing that a group of Nazi prisoners “seem already waxen and posthumous, like museum figures of the members of some nefarious long-ago regime which had failed.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 2026

“That’s a lie,” was his standard rejoinder, strangely accompanied by a waxen smile that flickered on and off as though set on a faulty timer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2023

Soon after her fourth birthday, in the summer of 1930, a waxen effigy of Princess Elizabeth made its debut at Madame Tussauds, seated on a pony.

From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2022

After my mother-in-law passed away in February, her closest relatives never stopped chattering to her, setting out a glass of her favorite beer next to her coffin, applying blush to her waxen cheeks.

From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2018

Yossarian was stunned at how waxen and ghastly Snowden’s bare leg looked, how loathsome, how lifeless and esoteric the downy, fine, curled blond hairs on his odd, white shin and calf.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

But unlike Humphrey Bogart in “Casablanca,” the governors of California, Washington and other states aren’t waxing nostalgic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

That contrast demonstrates the light-switch - or waxing and waning effect - that can be postpartum psychosis, experts told the BBC.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

Yet despite his affinity for Wallace, none of Randolph’s waxing poetry turns false in the wash.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

Tim Campbell, CEO of Baillie Gifford—that paradoxically venerable yet go-go Scottish investment house—is waxing eloquent about maybe his favorite stock in the entire universe.

From Barron's ● May 21, 2026

The waxing moon was climbing slowly above the hill that overshadowed them, and the stars above the hill-top faded.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien