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Last week, fresh official data showed wage growth coming in at 3.2 percent year-on-year, lagging inflation and meaning that most people were seeing their income shrink in real terms.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

The International Monetary Fund expects the economy to shrink 5.4% this year while Kahalzadeh estimates the war could ultimately destroy 2 million to 3 million jobs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Businesses aren’t hiring lots of people, but they are extremely reluctant to shrink their workforces with sales rising and the economy still expanding.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026

As much as I was expected to fit into a single identity, there was no way I could shrink one part of myself when both of my experiences are equally valid.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

Last time I was locked up, the hospital shrink had me draw a life-sized outline of my body.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson

And foreign workers could help fill labour shortages as the working-age population shrinks.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

Plus: China’s surging clean-tech exports, lithium-free batteries, Strategic Petroleum Reserve shrinks below 300 million barrels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Nevertheless, the claustrophobic framing shrinks an epic voyage into small-screen content made solely for a bored child to hold right up to their nose.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

An internecine price war that shrinks margins is extremely damaging in the run-up to an IPO.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026

Charlie, frightened by the hysteria and the screaming, shrinks into a chair whimpering softly.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

The occupations most exposed to AI’s reach shrank by 0.2% year over year in June, according to research from ADP and Stanford University.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

The startup shrank from 70 employees to 15, retaining only a small group to rebuild around an AI-focused product.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

The Swiss chocolate maker said a "necessary groupwide" price surge of 11.8% was one of the reasons revenue shrank in the first half of this year, particularly in the UK, Germany, and Switzerland.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

The results suggest that the local population shrank dramatically before new groups migrated north and settled in the region.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 8, 2026

The Eugenics Record Office in America had lost much of its funding in 1939 and shrank drastically after 1945.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

But such sharp rebukes may well suggest the former first minister's standing in the party has shrunk.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

While International Monetary Fund data show that the dollar’s share of official foreign currency reserves has shrunk over the past 20 years, in more recent years, the process has flatlined.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026

Still, the community has shrunk from more than 100,000 before the Islamic Revolution in 1979 and faces painful restrictions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

It has shrunk dramatically in the last 27 years, and research shows climate change is intensifying the extremely dry conditions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

Her hands, which had become long and clawlike, had shrunk to their usual, ordinary shape.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

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

Siwar is five months old and acutely malnourished, a child whose large, brown eyes dominate her shrunken frame.

From BBC ● May 13, 2025

Its shrunken body bore an uncanny resemblance to the creatures that had haunted my dreams, as did the color of its flesh, which was like something that had been spit-roasted over a flame.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

The vineyard's harvests have already been shrinking over the years, dropping to around 5,000 litres -- enough for about 40,000 bottles -- compared to around 6,000 litres in the past.

From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026

But the Mayor’s Fund had been atrophying for years, with its donations shrinking to a fraction of what it raised under Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Consumer demand is shrinking because boomers — the industry’s biggest fans — are aging out of the wine market.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

In their worldview, a family’s shrinking purchasing power is primarily evidence of bad character.

From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026

The door, meagerly, opened and he saw within the apartment a fragmented and misaligned shrinking figure, a girl who cringed and slunk away and yet held onto the door, as if for physical support.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick