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shrinks

  • plural
    of shrink.
    shrink
    verb (used without object)
    to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance.
  • present tense form
    of shrink (3rd person singular).
    shrink
    verb (used without object)
    to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance.

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India's neighbour China has spent years grappling with an ageing population, rolling out measures to encourage younger people to marry and boost births as its workforce shrinks.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

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

Historically, when one studio is acquired by another, output shrinks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

My stomach shrinks into a pit as I stare at the forest.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer