shrunk
Example Sentences
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Mangum reported to spring training and learned that he had shrunk.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 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
In its annual report, the Austrian Alpine Club, said 94 out of the 96 glaciers that it measured over the past year in Austria, had shrunk.
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026
It was like they’d taken the sprawling complex of the Academy and shrunk it.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.