shrink from
phrasal verb
shrank from or shrunk from; shrunk from or shrunken from; shrinking from; shrinks from
: to try to avoid (something difficult or unpleasant) : to be unwilling to do (something)
He doesn't shrink from telling the truth, no matter how painful it may be.
She won't shrink from the task.
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Those two points meant everything to gamblers who received or gave 9.5 points as the final margin shrank from 11 to 9.
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David K. Li, NBC News, 19 Jan. 2025
Economists at BofA, Goldman and JPMorgan expect the median projection to shrink from the prior forecast of four 25 basis-point cuts next year to three, projecting an end-of-2025 target range of 3.5%-3.75%.
—Derek Saul, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
In some areas, the once-dominant reeds have shrunk from covering 80 percent of the region in 2012 to just 25 percent in 2022, according to a study published in Nature Communications.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
The Astron effectively kicked off what people now call the quartz crisis: a period during the 1970s that saw around 1,000 Swiss watch companies go belly-up and the industry’s workforce shrink from 90,000 to below 30,000 by the end of the decade.
—Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 26 Dec. 2024
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David K. Li, NBC News, 19 Jan. 2025
Economists at BofA, Goldman and JPMorgan expect the median projection to shrink from the prior forecast of four 25 basis-point cuts next year to three, projecting an end-of-2025 target range of 3.5%-3.75%.
—Derek Saul, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
In some areas, the once-dominant reeds have shrunk from covering 80 percent of the region in 2012 to just 25 percent in 2022, according to a study published in Nature Communications.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
The Astron effectively kicked off what people now call the quartz crisis: a period during the 1970s that saw around 1,000 Swiss watch companies go belly-up and the industry’s workforce shrink from 90,000 to below 30,000 by the end of the decade.
—Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 26 Dec. 2024
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“Shrink from.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shrink%20from. Accessed 19 Feb. 2025.
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