waxing

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

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

Eleven days later, the moon was at three-quarters waxing.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

“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

What is the reason for these waxings and wanings?

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

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

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