shrinkage

Example Sentences

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The shrinkage follows lackluster economic performance in 2025, which plummeted the company’s shares by 25% in February.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

The sector’s shrinkage reflects years of yo-yo profitability and of returning gobs of cash to shareholders because companies lacked good reinvestment opportunities.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

These deposits trigger a series of damaging changes that eventually lead to brain shrinkage and declining cognitive function.

From Science Daily • Mar. 11, 2026

There are several causes for the yield shrinkage, one being the big share price increases in recent years that pushed yields lower.

From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025

If we disregard any shrinkage prior to that year, the contemporary population of Tache would have reached at least 1,600 if Cabot's estimates for the two villages in 1814 are to be credited.

From The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California by Cook, Sherburne F.