shrunk

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Research shows the ranks of higher earners have grown markedly over the past 50 years, while the lower rungs of the middle class have shrunk.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

Sydney-based AI consultant Conyngham told AFP that eight-year-old Rosie's mast cell cancer is now in partial remission and her biggest tumour has shrunk dramatically.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

The Colorado River, another major water source for Southern California, has shrunk over the last quarter of a century amid a megadrought worsened by rising temperatures.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2026

The departures are part of bigger changes in recent weeks that have shrunk the original team that helped Musk launch the creator of the Grok chatbot.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

Easier to find were the dikonko, edible locusts and crickets, whose plump abdomens were shrunk translucent like balloons half-filled with water.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver