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Its taxi fleet is contracting at a swifter pace, with the fleet size falling 8.7% on year in 4Q 2025, double the 4.1% drop in 4Q 2024, the head of research notes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

Fixed-asset investment is contracting and retail sales growth is slowing, despite policymakers’ efforts to stimulate growth.

From Barron's • Nov. 7, 2025

The problem is that contraction is great as long as it’s not your business that is contracting.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2025

Surveys of purchasing managers show that economic activity is contracting in all major eurozone economies, according to Alexander Valentin, senior economist at Oxford Economics, data that “add to mounting recession risks.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 11, 2023

My face is soaked, my chest is contracting.

From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart