shrinkage

Example Sentences

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The upshot is that officials eventually must decide when to resume purchases of securities to prevent further passive shrinkage of reserves.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

"These materials tend to be porous, which significantly reduces their strength, and the parts suffer from excessive shrinkage, which causes warping," he says.

From Science Daily

His team at Glamos has monitored a record shrinkage of the glaciers over the past few years.

From BBC

More distressing is the collapse or shrinkage of the guardrails to prevent it, from the press to Congress to the business community to some judges.

From Salon