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waxing

[wak-sing] / ˈwæk sɪŋ /
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enlarging
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Mostly, those are the “momentum” stocks like chip makers that have gyrated with waxing and waning AI optimism.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 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

Online influencer Aniessa Navarro said she felt sick when she realised during a personal waxing session that her technician was wearing Meta's glasses.

From BBC May 13, 2026

Known as the Dragon Slayer, he’s often shown meditating, praying, waxing philosophical, and pontificating on nobility, integrity and honor.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 25, 2026

I thanked him and spent some time waxing the runners.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

“There is a place in newspaper food sections and food magazines for cheery, revisionist, nostalgic waxings; for songs of dew-kissed baby lettuces; for Proustian glances back,” she writes.

From New York Times Feb. 18, 2022

He arranged for them to get eyebrow waxings and manicures on the day before his Sept.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its waxings and wanings were marked by curious "trepidations" of brightness extremely perplexing to theory.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke

I might tell of waxings and waning of love between us, but the whole was waning.

From Tono Bungay by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

What is the reason for these waxings and wanings?

From Education: How Old The New by James J. Walsh




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