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Once the parts are produced, the ceramic cores and wax used to make them are destroyed, Howmet’s Chief Executive John Plant said at an investor meeting earlier this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Revenue could also become more volatile since incomes of high earners wax and wane with capital gains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 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

To determine whether these chambers truly influence development, the team raised queen larvae in cells made either from queen wax or standard worker wax.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026

Odysseus told his men about them and that the only way to pass them safely was for each man to stop his ears with wax.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

The connections among the Emersonians waxed and waned.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

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

From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026

Doing laundry, cleaning the tub, getting your upper lip waxed at a nearby salon — these are all chores that fall into this category.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

Individual participation has waxed and waned, rising in good times and falling after crises like the 1929 crash and the 2007-09 recession of 2007.

From Barron's ● Apr. 15, 2026

The Savoy Ballroom is massive, even compared to the Roseland back in Boston: an expanse of waxed dance floor positively stuffed with Lindy Hoppers dancing elbow to elbow.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz

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

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

But soon the potatoes and the chicken and the carrots had all tasted the same to her, blanched and waxen and gray.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

During her courses, she learnt about tinting, waxing, facials and massage, which was taught as a separate module.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 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

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

When donors pooled around $750,000 to upgrade the waxing, the team welcomed Yolanda, a custom-built lorry with eight work stations, binders of waxing data, more than 600 skis and a snack table filled with cheese.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026

One was a deep brown, with scrapes and scratches visible beneath the glossy veneer she kept up with biannual waxing.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals