shrank

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Travel spending shrank slightly in Los Angeles County last year as local crises drove away tourists and national policy alienated foreign visitors.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026

Ancient rivers crossed a greener environment, feeding shallow lakes that grew and shrank over time.

From Science Daily • May 16, 2026

Massachusetts is steadily losing more domestic movers than it is gaining, and Boston shrank slightly in the last measured year.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

The U.S. government’s budget surplus shrank in April from a year earlier, thanks to weaker tax revenue and higher corporate and individual refunds.

From Barron's • May 12, 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