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But cities and towns can shrink that figure: In Houston, for instance, real-estate developers can build on parcels as small as 1,400 square feet.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

Climate change threatens to shrink the amount of water they can reliably deliver over the next 20 years, state officials have warned.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Jon Hilsenrath, a former WSJ Fed reporter who now runs Serpa Pinto Advisory, notes that under Chairman Kevin Warsh, the minutes have continued to shrink and lose detail.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

She said the debt markets are "looking for a signal that there is a medium-term fiscal consolidation plan" and "clarity that over time the debt would shrink".

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 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

If it shrinks, you’ll know who drank the 24 cents.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

It was also associated with less enlargement of the brain's ventricles, fluid filled spaces that tend to grow as brain tissue shrinks.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

The boarding becomes more frantic as the window of opportunity shrinks.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

These combined Olympic experiences — an event ticket paired with upgrades in access and perks — have become more tempting for many as the number of Olympic seats shrinks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

She said what if she did, he didn't have to call them shrinks.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

Meanwhile, the information sector shrank by 10,000 jobs in September.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

After his arrival at Mattel in 2018, the company cut more than 2,000 jobs as it shrank its manufacturing footprint.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

In 2025 -- one of the warmest years on record -- glaciers also shrank across all regions, even as groundwater levels in many parts of the world are in multi-year decline, it found.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

They were also potent for exactly the same reason: they took a distant argument about nationhood and shrank it down to lunch.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

Monsoon cast a waterfall in front of them, then whispered a few words that shrank the waterfall into a gray pendant.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

A weakened economy and rapid AI adoption have shrunk the job market, just as a record crop of graduates enters the workforce.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Yet those portfolios have shrunk as a percentage of banks’ size and capital, and they have shifted toward shorter-term bonds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

But that gap had shrunk to a solitary point by the time the drivers lined up for the last of 17 stages, bringing back painful memories of previous narrow misses for Evans.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

As temperatures rise, Arctic sea ice has shrunk by nearly half a million square kilometres per decade since 1979, equivalent to losing an area the size of Spain every 10 years.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

She felt very lost in it, like a dwarf, as if she had shrunk.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

In the summer of 2019, I was sitting in a stark hospital room, while a shrunken version of my mom laid in the bed in front of me.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Satellite images examined by BBC Verify show shrunken glaciers, scorched areas left by wildfires, green fields turned arid and lower river levels.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

Buffett liked the monopoly status of newspapers, which has been largely destroyed over the past 20 years, leaving the industry greatly shrunken and far less profitable.

From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026

But rebuilding agencies that have been radically shrunken would take much longer than cutting them down, the scholars said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2025

I picked up the shrunken photo of Fig and me in front of the shuttle Atlantis.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

The global market for smart home displays, which is both small and shrinking, seems ripe for reinvention.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

European automakers have been grappling with a shrinking auto market in China coupled with intense competition that has sparked a prolonged price war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

The mayor said the hires were needed to replace officers who are retiring — and keep the department from shrinking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

The shrinking of these cells following exercise indicates that the tissue is moving toward a healthier metabolic state even before changes in body weight become visible.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

My hands are smaller than his, but it’s like he’s shrinking, losing his muscle mass.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed