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waxing

[wak-sing] / ˈwæk sɪŋ /
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enlarging
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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

That contrast demonstrates the light-switch - or waxing and waning effect - that can be postpartum psychosis, experts told the BBC.

From BBC Aug. 19, 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

The waxing moon rose earlier each night, though Xan did not pay it much mind.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

“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

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

What is the reason for these waxings and wanings?

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

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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