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shrinkage

[shring-kij] / ˈʃrɪŋ kɪdʒ /


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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

Despite potential equity valuation shrinkage for software firms, Golub anticipates they will continue to repay lenders.

From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026

The results -- which tracked people across a wide age range -- reveal that the link between brain shrinkage and memory decline is not simple or linear.

From Science Daily • Jan. 14, 2026

The shrinkage is equal to compression plus the extension, and the amount must be regulated by the known extension and compression under certain stresses and given circumstances.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua