shrinkage
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Prices could find support from the shrinkage in the storage surplus, which is likely to continue through the end of September and “is a significant bullish consideration in our opinion,” the firm says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
The rate of glacier shrinkage has been increasing globally since the 1990s and at a particularly accelerated rate since 2000, according to the European Commission's monitoring body Copernicus.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
The same shrinkage happened for workers in their late 20s, but on a smaller scale.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Their findings raise the possibility that lower doses of cisplatin might achieve comparable tumor shrinkage while reducing side effects.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 20, 2026
The first statement appears to be explicable by the shrinkage of all the mucous membranes during cholera collapse, for by this merely mechanical agency the inelastic epithelium must necessarily become detached.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
"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
There were shrinkages of one kind and another, and living had grown much more expensive and luxurious.
From The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells
Vocabulary lists containing shrinkage
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -age
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