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shrinkage

noun as in decrease

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"These materials tend to be porous, which significantly reduces their strength, and the parts suffer from excessive shrinkage, which causes warping," he says.

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His team at Glamos has monitored a record shrinkage of the glaciers over the past few years.

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More distressing is the collapse or shrinkage of the guardrails to prevent it, from the press to Congress to the business community to some judges.

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“We’ve actually seen some slippage and shrinkage in the last couple of months.”

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This led to the significant shrinkage of tumors before standard chemotherapy was administered.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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