waxing

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

Yet despite his affinity for Wallace, none of Randolph’s waxing poetry turns false in the wash.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 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

But for the past two weeks, I’ve had a secret joy and a secret dread both rattling inside a me that make waxing floors go even slower and washing underwear a uphill race.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

“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 Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke

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