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Snaking queues of vehicles waited in Myanmar for shrivelling petrol supplies on Wednesday, with some gas stations shuttered as fuel stocks dried up due to the war in the Middle East.

From Barron's • Mar. 4, 2026

They say investment in the North Sea is shrivelling fast, with knock-on effects in refinery and chemical plant closures.

From BBC • Nov. 23, 2025

While the bank had been preparing markets for a further stimulus cut at its March 10 meeting, rate hike bets are shrivelling.

From Reuters • Mar. 1, 2022

California is especially badly hit: snowpack all but vanished, rivers, lakes and reservoirs dropping to record lows, farms shrivelling.

From The Guardian • Jun. 12, 2015

Cruelty to punctuation is quite unlegislated: you can get away with pulling the legs off semicolons; shrivelling question marks on the garden path under a powerful magnifying glass; you name it.

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author