shrunken

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Shrunken versions of novels like “Sense and Sensibility” and “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” will be sold by Coach as readable bag charms.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

Stewart’s recipe for Shrunken Heads in Cider is a great party beverage that’s simple yet horrific.

From Salon • Oct. 30, 2025

Shrunken heads were then produced by people in the Amazon and by outsiders merely for trading purposes, with the earliest known account of an outsider making a tsantsa in 1872.

From New York Times • May 13, 2021

Shrunken practice time gives defensive fronts an advantage over offensive lines, which are more reliant on cohesion and coordination.

From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2017

Shrunken to the dreary platitudes of the gold-standard catechism, babbling of “sound currency” and “intrinsic value.”

From The Arena Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897 by Various