shrinkage
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The same shrinkage happened for workers in their late 20s, but on a smaller scale.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Small studies suggest these sprays may help memory or reduce brain shrinkage, but delivery methods remain a challenge.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026
And, he wondered, given balance-sheet expansion that mainly works through financial markets, what if they respond poorly to further shrinkage?
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
The law’s goal of promoting national self-sufficiency in shipbuilding has been met with fleet shrinkage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
There are in general machine work four kinds of fit, as follow: The working or sliding fit; the driving fit; the hydraulic press fit; and the shrinkage fit.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
"Typically, it will suffer about five to 10% volume expansion or shrinkages," Wang said.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 29, 2025
There were deeper ones during the mid-70s, early-80s and the 2008 Financial Crisis that all resulted in shrinkages in the economy for two years in a row.
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2024
The study revealed Sapria and Balanophora have lost 38 per cent and 28 per cent of their genomes respectively, while evolving to become holoparasitic -- record shrinkages for flowering plants.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2023
“And a majority of States forbid age discrimination by political subdivisions of any size. . . . No untoward service shrinkages have been documented.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 6, 2018
This is much to be regretted, but retrenchment was enforced by revenue shrinkages and the dislocation temporarily caused by federal union.
From Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information by Queensland
Vocabulary lists containing shrinkage
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -age
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