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It was condemned by international rights groups as a symbol of Hong Kong's shrivelling press freedoms.

From Barron's • Feb. 9, 2026

Both have since swung back to Labour, but now it confronts a shrivelling neither of those moments touched – the potential of losing Wales.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2025

While the bank had been preparing markets for a further stimulus cut at its March 10 meeting, rate hike bets are shrivelling.

From Reuters • Mar. 1, 2022

California is especially badly hit: snowpack all but vanished, rivers, lakes and reservoirs dropping to record lows, farms shrivelling.

From The Guardian • Jun. 12, 2015

Cruelty to punctuation is quite unlegislated: you can get away with pulling the legs off semicolons; shrivelling question marks on the garden path under a powerful magnifying glass; you name it.

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author