shrink
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By the Labor Department’s own math, 1% in additional fees can shrink someone’s nest egg at retirement by 28%.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
That doesn’t compare with Covid lockdowns, which caused euro-area GDP to shrink by 6.1% in 2020.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Because their wavelengths can shrink to just a few nanometers, magnon-based circuits could potentially fit onto chips no larger than those already found in smartphones.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 2, 2026
In a speech, Jones said "Westminster must trust local leaders to make the right decisions" and suggested government departments could "shrink" if Burnham becomes prime minister.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
And with my persistence that crummy black hole would eventually shrink and no longer have such a strong gravitational pull.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
When your bet goes cold and shrinks below your target percentage, buy enough to get back to your allocation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
While the company will “struggle to grow,” the current stock price implies that its business shrinks 5% each year in perpetuity, he added.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
As earnings estimates fall, valuation multiples can rise because the denominator of the price-to-earnings ratio shrinks, Sagal said.
From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026
Played by a snarling, coiled Tom Blyth, Dee swaggers whereas Taylor shrinks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026
Because Thanksgiving was going to happen while we were doing surface operations, and NASA's shrinks thought it would be good for us to make a meal together.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
The results suggest that the local population shrank dramatically before new groups migrated north and settled in the region.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 8, 2026
Medics were unable to completely remove her tumours but one shrank with radiotherapy.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
Redemptions exceeded 5% for the first time in September 2022 as LENDX’s returns shrank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Interest costs are already eating up some 20% of state revenue, de Sousa adds, though Petro’s government temporarily shrank that through a short-term “liability management exercise.”
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
With some vague misgiving that she might get upon the table then and there and die at once, the complete realisation of the ghastly waxwork at the Fair, I shrank under her touch.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
The gap between market-rate rents and affordable housing rents has shrunk, and not just in Portland.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
“We have sometimes shrunk from applying that rule,” Justice Gorsuch laments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
Similarly, Woody, who rode off into the sunset in the last entry and here returns with a weather-beaten bald spot, gets treated like a human grandpa shrunk down to doll-size.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
Both waterways have shrunk significantly, however, and their flow rates are at historic lows.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
Our family time was when big worries and urgent concerns got abruptly and mercilessly shrunk to nothing so that the small could rightly take over.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
According to De la Vega, she finds the shrunken books more approachable.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
The reel was shrunken through age and frayed, but otherwise in remarkable condition for something stashed in sun-heated attics for years.
From Barron's ● Apr. 13, 2026
On top of a degraded infrastructure, it would have to contend with a shrunken military and new threats such as drones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
The individual beans, which resemble shrunken dates due to their wrinkly dark exterior, can also be microplaned to create a fine powder, according to a guide from Great British Chefs.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2025
Huddled beneath her ermine mantle and surrounded by her ladies, serving girls, and knights, the southron queen seemed a frail, pale, shrunken thing.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Many of Japan’s economic problems result from its demographic challenge: an ageing and shrinking population that has created labor shortages.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
The EU insists the bloc must boost productivity and cut unemployment to offset the effects of a shrinking workforce.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
Cable TV audiences are shrinking rapidly, and cinema attendance faces intense, ongoing pressure from tech giants and streaming platforms, making scale an economic necessity.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Damon told the Times of London that shrinking revenues in Hollywood make it extremely unlikely for a studio to put up the money needed to film these massive movies.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
There was also the problem, demonstrated by Rutherford and Soddy early in the century, that Earthly elements hold huge reserves of heat–much too much to allow for the sort of cooling and shrinking Suess suggested.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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