shrinkage

Example Sentences

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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.

From Salon

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

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Science Daily

However you want to describe what’s going on in the Hollywood economy right now, there are potentially brutal long-term consequences of the entertainment industry’s shrinkage.

From Los Angeles Times

While higher temperatures increase glacier melt, temporarily boosting oases' water supplies, "as glaciers gradually disappear, the yield of meltwater will eventually decrease, leading to the shrinkage of oases once again," Gui said.

From Science Daily