shrinkage

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The shrinkage follows lackluster economic performance in 2025, which plummeted the company’s shares by 25% in February.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

The structural score also showed a strong relationship with cognitive test results and a more moderate association with MRI measurements of brain shrinkage.

From Science Daily • Mar. 12, 2026

The upshot is that officials eventually must decide when to resume purchases of securities to prevent further passive shrinkage of reserves.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

There are several causes for the yield shrinkage, one being the big share price increases in recent years that pushed yields lower.

From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025

For gauging work of very large diameter, as, say, several feet, to minute fractions of an inch, as is necessary, for example, for a shrinkage fit on a locomotive tire, the following method is employed.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua