shrinkage

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The shrinkage follows lackluster economic performance in 2025, which plummeted the company’s shares by 25% in February.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

The structural score also showed a strong relationship with cognitive test results and a more moderate association with MRI measurements of brain shrinkage.

From Science Daily • Mar. 12, 2026

The sector’s shrinkage reflects years of yo-yo profitability and of returning gobs of cash to shareholders because companies lacked good reinvestment opportunities.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

There are several causes for the yield shrinkage, one being the big share price increases in recent years that pushed yields lower.

From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025

By this means shrinkage strains are eliminated and a strong and light pulley is obtained.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua