shrink
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“This cycle’s playbook is shrink the floating balance, because it was expensive before the hike ever arrived. … The Fed decides what rates do next. You decide how much of your life floats.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
Arctic cyclones often bring unusually warm, turbulent conditions that can shrink and fracture sea ice.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
Trading high-tax states for places like Florida, Arizona or Nevada can unlock home equity and shrink state income-tax bills.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
But expressions turned to anxiety and caution reigned, as the vote count progressed and the left-wing bloc's lead began to shrink.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
By the time I get home from school, my family will shrink down to Mom and us three kids.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
All that steam time also shrinks “the product,” Langer says,”anywhere from 35 to 38%.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
The boarding becomes more frantic as the window of opportunity shrinks.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Historically, when one studio is acquired by another, output shrinks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
QCDs during those pre-RMD years are quietly one of the best moves available, because every dollar you move out of your account shrinks the balance your future RMDs are calculated on.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
Drying, it shrinks back to its original dimensions.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Revenue rose through price increases as the customer base shrank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
South Africa's economy shrank in the second quarter of 2026, snapping a nearly two-year growth streak as the war in Iran weighed on domestic demand, the national statistics agency said Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
At the same time, the projected benefit obligation for the S&P 500 shrank to about $1.4 trillion at the end of 2025 from $2.3 trillion five years earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
They were also potent for exactly the same reason: they took a distant argument about nationhood and shrank it down to lunch.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
Odysseus shrank from killing such a man, taught by the gods to sing divinely, and he spared him for further song.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
It is not just rural council-backed services that have shrunk.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Bass has also backed growing the size of the LAPD, though the force has shrunk under her leadership.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
According to the simulations, the heliosphere may at times have shrunk to a size smaller than Earth's orbit, temporarily leaving our planet outside the Sun's protective bubble.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026
Customers love the firm's massive catalogue of ultra-cheap items, from $8 sundresses to $2 bracelets, at a time when inflation has shrunk purchasing power around the world.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
The old woman, shrunk by age and time to little bigger than a child, held on to a stick as tall and bent as herself with palsied and swollen-knuckled hands.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
According to De la Vega, she finds the shrunken books more approachable.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
The reel was shrunken through age and frayed, but otherwise in remarkable condition for something stashed in sun-heated attics for years.
From Barron's ● Apr. 13, 2026
Outside, freshly laid parking lots sit mostly empty while a single, shrunken shift of workers comes and goes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
The individual beans, which resemble shrunken dates due to their wrinkly dark exterior, can also be microplaned to create a fine powder, according to a guide from Great British Chefs.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2025
His hands had always an immaculate, shrunken look, as though they had been scrubbed with a brush and soaked for a long time in a pan of water.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
The UN's World Intellectual Property Organization said more money was going into venture capital, even as the number of VC deals was shrinking and becoming increasingly concentrated on AI firms.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
As a result, he is considering “everything” moving forward, including shrinking the playbook.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
A new scientific study has now provided the first evidence that eco-moorings can help restore seagrass, with some scars shrinking by more than 90% over four years.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
After observing a shrinking number of stocks driving the stock market’s recent gains, Joseph Adinolfi considered the notion that the old buy-and-hold investing philosophy has become obsolete.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
Feeling reasonably safe, Nhamo settled down inside the half-circle of fire with her head on the shrinking mealie bag.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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