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waxing

[wak-sing] / ˈwæk sɪŋ /
ADJECTIVE
enlarging
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Social media has spurred an increase in retailers dedicated to making Americans look good in photos, from blow-dry hair salons to waxing chains.

From The Wall Street Journal

I thanked him and spent some time waxing the runners.

From Literature

As life went on, Stanton got well into the intricacies of movement politics: meetings, rivalries, lectures, tactical disputes, the waxing and waning of public support.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Fed leaders would be well served to skip opportunities to share their latest musings. The swivel-chair problem, rhetorically waxing and waning with the latest data release, is common and counterproductive,” Warsh said last April.

From MarketWatch

Robyn’s not interested in waxing poetic about society’s expectations of her as a mother.

From Salon