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It’s hardly the first big company to look for ways to shrink its workforce.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

Keytruda is often given to patients after surgery to prevent the return of their cancer, but sometimes it’s administered to patients in advance of surgery to shrink the tumor.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

In space, those demands decrease substantially, allowing muscles and even the heart itself to shrink over time.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

The fact the borrowing costs gap has narrowed a bit with other G7 nations, and the IMF praised pencilled-in plans to shrink borrowing, provided a platform for the chancellor's Budget.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

The poem is called “Still I Rise,” and even though Ms. Jacobs is staring at me like she read the poem just for me, I don’t shrink low in my seat.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée

If it shrinks, you’ll know who drank the 24 cents.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

It was also associated with less enlargement of the brain's ventricles, fluid filled spaces that tend to grow as brain tissue shrinks.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

Buying back older bonds shrinks the supply of long-term debt in the market, which can push yields down.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

All that steam time also shrinks “the product,” Langer says,”anywhere from 35 to 38%.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

The vegan daughter in question shrinks into her seat, like she’s trying to disappear.

From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli

Years ago he shrank his own office to enlarge a lounge for a singer-songwriter who needed space to camp out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

But she said the production and construction sectors shrank over the three-month period.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Meanwhile, the information sector shrank by 10,000 jobs in September.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

After his arrival at Mattel in 2018, the company cut more than 2,000 jobs as it shrank its manufacturing footprint.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 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

Australia stepped in with New Zealand and Papua New Guinea, with the number of teams involved shrunk from 16 to 10 to cut costs.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

It set the tone for another humiliating defeat, one which shows the gap to the Jillaroos has not shrunk since the thrashing in Las Vegas in March 2025.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Young people in China are facing dwindling opportunities and fiercer competition as a weakened economy shrunk the job market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

A weakened economy and rapid AI adoption have shrunk the job market, just as a record crop of graduates enters the workforce.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

She was up on her feet and Fern shrunk inside of herself.

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia

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

But rebuilding agencies that have been radically shrunken would take much longer than cutting them down, the scholars said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2025

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

Frail, shrunken, wizened, and blind, it was hard to imagipe him as a little boy no older than Arya.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

And the middle’s share is shrinking, down from 32.9% in 1999 and 30.2% at the end of 2024, according to the data.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

But all-inclusive resorts have quietly transformed into luxury destinations, according to the note, with Michelin-starred chefs and yoga and wellness retreats, as the travel industry increasingly chases wealthier consumers to offset potentially shrinking profits.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

Switzerland's glaciers lost more than 5% of their total ice volume in 2026, marking another devastating year for the country's rapidly shrinking glaciers.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

Driven by mounting climate threats, shrinking insurance options and modern fire science, landscaping in the nation’s most populous state is being redefined from the ground up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

My hands are smaller than his, but it’s like he’s shrinking, losing his muscle mass.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed