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wax

[waks] / wæks /


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While Holland refused to give any additional details about the couple’s wedding, he was happy to wax lyrical about his relationship with his co-star, telling Esquire that Zendaya is his “bedrock” and his “best friend.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

Nolan, the Conagra demand scientist, has seen gluten-free, vegan, keto, low-carb and fat-free diets all wane and wax in popularity over the years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

Each of the parts is created with a new wax mold that is made from scratch, according to Kristine Liwag, equity analyst at Morgan Stanley.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 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

You know how some celebrities wax poetic in interviews about how they just knew they'd be famous?

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

He spoke about staying vital as hip-hop waxed and waned commercially, how his office’s bar revamped local nightlife, and whether technology has changed the value of good taste.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

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’ve waxed poetic about pre-chopped onions as a doorway to weeknight cooking.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

Cars waxed and gleaming, plastic pennant flags criss-crossed over the lots.

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez

Her voice, paired with Mr. Carey’s writing, creates a beguiling audio backstory for a woman whom time has rendered as unreal as one of her waxen figures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

His waxen face was frozen in a perpetual scowl.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2024

Urs Fischer offers a literally waxen redeployment of antique statuary: a candle in the shape of the Three Graces, the central goddess facing backward, their absent heads turned into burning wicks.

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 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

I found an opportunity to exchange some words with him, the others rushing out into the yard, waxen clogs a-thumping, to place bets upon a battle royal between a mongoose and an asp.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

This is even though a similarly quick stop in London last year led to a waxing of the Jacksonville Jaguars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

So don’t ask me how I know that its male contestants seem to spend more time waxing than your average Real Housewife.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 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

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

But there was no steady progress; they understood from the doctors that this was only waxing and waning.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen




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