shrinkage
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The nonprofit Stand Up for Stand Up posted a detailed breakdown of the data that outlines a 66% shrinkage in the SiriusXM Raw channel roster.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 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
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
He did not charge for any shrinkage or shortage or anything in the world, but made himself liable for the uttermost farthing.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal by Robert Green Ingersoll
"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
Since then it has shrunk, by periodic shrinkages which have meant the buckling up of successive series of mountains, and it has now a diameter of 7,918 miles.
From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by J. Arthur Thomson
Vocabulary lists containing shrinkage
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -age
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