waxing
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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
Yet despite his affinity for Wallace, none of Randolph’s waxing poetry turns false in the wash.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
The index has seen some wild moves this week -- including Tuesday's 10 percent drop -- amid waxing and waning optimism over the AI boom.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 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
The waxing moon was a sliver in the east.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
“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
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