shrunk

variants or shrunken
past participle of shrink
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Recent Examples of shrunk Inevitably, the community has shrunk. Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2024 That has shrunken dramatically and been taken over by a lot of younger consumers. James Manso, WWD, 2 Oct. 2024 The company’s market capitalization has shrunk to $19 billion now, and a debt level of $13 billion implies a high debt to equity ratio of 68%. Trefis Team, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024 BBLs can be shrunk, breast implants can be removed—but once your teeth get shaved down and fitted with veneers, part of your literal bones are gone. Katie Way, SELF, 30 Sep. 2024 And Italy has shrunk the proportion by only one percent. Erik Jones, Foreign Affairs, 6 Apr. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shrunk
Verb
  • But with the air briefly trapped in a small space beneath the wing and the surface, it gets compressed, increasing the pressure below the wing and generating extra lift.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Since then, digital transformation, steep competition and our collective appetite for innovation have dramatically compressed the product life cycle.
    Keith Yandell, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
Verb
  • Expectations are diminished, contaminated by politics.
    Armond White, National Review, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Of course, that snub hasn’t really diminished the Parkour Civilization phenomenon.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • Forests and grasslands will have vanished.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The last minute surge in enrollments, which had occurred every previous year, vanished.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024

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“Shrunk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shrunk. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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