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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

“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 Feb. 3, 2026

The waxing moon was riding in the West, and the shadows of the rocks were black.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

“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 Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)

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

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

What is the reason for these waxings and wanings?

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




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