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"Foundations are sometimes built on peat bogs: if these dry out, they shrink, and cracks can appear in buildings," she said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

Borrowing capacity can also shrink precisely when funds need cash most if their assets run into trouble.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

Businesses aren’t hiring lots of people, but they are extremely reluctant to shrink their workforces with sales rising and the economy still expanding.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026

Television stations are also seeing their share of carriage fees from cable and satellite companies shrink due to cord-cutting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Hazel stared out of the window and watched the houses shrink and thought of villains and snow globes and what it would be like to be trapped inside.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

QCDs during those pre-RMD years are quietly one of the best moves available, because every dollar you move out of your account shrinks the balance your future RMDs are calculated on.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

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

Nevertheless, the claustrophobic framing shrinks an epic voyage into small-screen content made solely for a bored child to hold right up to their nose.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 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

And with a bow of his head, Cozmo shrinks into a bird and flaps away.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

We learned last week that total payrolls shrank in July, the fifth time in the past 12 months.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

The occupations most exposed to AI’s reach shrank by 0.2% year over year in June, according to research from ADP and Stanford University.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

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

She had moved on to Håkon, who shrank back at her attention.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

But such sharp rebukes may well suggest the former first minister's standing in the party has shrunk.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

While International Monetary Fund data show that the dollar’s share of official foreign currency reserves has shrunk over the past 20 years, in more recent years, the process has flatlined.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026

Still, the community has shrunk from more than 100,000 before the Islamic Revolution in 1979 and faces painful restrictions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

In the last 27 years, the river has shrunk dramatically.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

Andromache held in her arms her son Astyanax, the little boy who had once shrunk back from his father’s high-crested helmet.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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

It functions, instead, as an honest and inquisitive interrogation of a life that has been, for too long, shrunken down and underappreciated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 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

With the addition of Frankie Garcia as lead singer, Bobby and the Classics renamed themselves the Headhunters after a shrunken head that Jaramillo hung on the rearview mirror of his ’49 Chevy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2025

The hate and mistrust burning in the soldiers’ eyes might have shrunken my spine, but it only sparked rebellion in the older kids.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken

The vineyard's harvests have already been shrinking over the years, dropping to around 5,000 litres -- enough for about 40,000 bottles -- compared to around 6,000 litres in the past.

From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026

This concern about the loss of farmland is a constant of the opposition to large projects that might bring growth to rural areas suffering from population declines, shrinking schools and empty houses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Consumer demand is shrinking because boomers — the industry’s biggest fans — are aging out of the wine market.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

With increasing altitude and inventiveness and shrinking landing space.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

She changes the contours of Claudine's body, shrinking her down and erasing the height I'd given her but making her round as a ripe apple.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton