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Not surprising, now that we paid more attention to it, we’re reducing our shrink pretty much in all those areas.

For days, the ruble has been falling and salaries shrinking; shoppers have rushed to snap up TV sets and washing machines.

Mr. Wynd said the shrinking process includes filling the head with hot sand and boiling it with herbs.

For the first time in American history, rural areas are shrinking.

The already-tiny group of volunteers and health-care workers in West Africa is shrinking.

Shrinking ad revenue in the digital era has caused outlets to scale back on everything.

We were shown how the bowl or vase was burned, shrinking to nearly half its size in the process.

Ida sat down gasping, when her companion stopped, and gazed with an instinctive shrinking into the gulf below.

What had it all come to—the long pain, the persistent shrinking from this man, whom God alone might judge?

She hangs back, shrinking, for a moment, when ordered into the coach with the dead body of her partner in guilt.

The old miser's face changed suddenly from rage and malevolence to a leering softness more hateful still to her shrinking eyes.