shrivel
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It was only in the 1990s that Germany began to let its defense industry shrivel again as it diverted spending toward the welfare state.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025
He starts the film at a speed-dating event where, in a great montage, he disappoints a procession of dewy singletons who shrivel up when this hunk comes across as cold and rude.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2025
Only a few short weeks after we carried the luscious green plant into our new home, its protruding branches and leaves started to shrivel.
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2024
"I thought I was going to shrivel away to nothing," Balsamico told Grist.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2024
He gave Archie a look that would shrivel anybody else, but Archie just kept that silly smile on his face.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
As the process unfolds, the cell's nucleus, which contains its genetic material, gradually shrivels before ultimately breaking apart.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
When the home lineup is daunting, as well, the overall margin for error shrivels.
From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2024
That’s because dehydration shrivels and distorts tissues, but frozen organs mostly keep their shape.
From National Geographic ● Aug. 7, 2023
Without it, the country shrivels to a landlocked rump state.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2022
The fruits swell and burst crimson and the tree shrivels and dies.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
More recently, a collapsed property bubble has shriveled investment and further widened the current account surplus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
San Juan's once-sparkling rivers have shriveled due to drought, and residents in the rugged, western Argentine province fear that prospective mining projects in the Andes will make matters worse.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
Hanwha plans to pump $5 billion into the site, hoping to rebuild a shipbuilding workforce and supply ecosystem that has largely shriveled away.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025
But in recent months the pool of recruits at the Los Angeles Police Department has shriveled to the point of running dry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2025
The animated dragon fizzled out a geyser of gas and shriveled into a heap of crinkled plastic.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
"A healthy plant would have 70 to 80 grains. This one will produce 10," she said, pointing to one shrivelled shoot.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
The way Smith has shrivelled here, with 211 runs across 10 innings at an average of 23.44, as well as dropped catches, is a matter of serious concern.
From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2026
It is a vote he would lose, and badly, and it might expose just how shrivelled that parliamentary loyalty to him now is.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2023
The drought has laid waste to the Somali countryside, leaving crops shrivelled and the scrublands dotted with the corpses of emaciated livestock.
From Reuters ● Dec. 13, 2022
When taken out of the stocks his skin was cold and shrivelled; there was no perceptible pulsation in the temporal or radial arteries, and he complained of severe cephalgia ...
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
In July, just 2 millimeters of rain fell in East Anglia, drying out fields and shriveling vegetables in one of the U.K.’s breadbaskets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
But the oversized airport was a bleak metaphor for a city that was once more bustling and then got let down—first by the shriveling of the steel business, then by USAir itself.
From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2025
Is queer humanity just a transitory circus in years of flourishing and a graveyard in years of shriveling?
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2025
If butterflies lay eggs as plants are shriveling, caterpillars might enter the world with nothing to eat.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
No more shriveling looks of disapproval, at least not tonight.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
He must know his chances to do so appear to be shrivelling yet further.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
It was condemned by international rights groups as a symbol of Hong Kong's shrivelling press freedoms.
From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026
While the bank had been preparing markets for a further stimulus cut at its March 10 meeting, rate hike bets are shrivelling.
From Reuters ● Mar. 1, 2022
California is especially badly hit: snowpack all but vanished, rivers, lakes and reservoirs dropping to record lows, farms shrivelling.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 12, 2015
Her body curled too; as the weeks turned to months, she shrank into herself like the stiffest of fetuses, shrivelling, her skin sallow and waxy.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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