[Contax]

Sorry for the tangential, but as a non-native English speaker, and still learning... this really caught my attention: "grows smaller". It looks like a kind of contradiction. Is it common to use that instead of, say, "shrink"?

[bckr]

“Grows” is sometimes used as a synonym for “becomes” or “becomes more”.

“Becomes smaller”

[Contax]

Thanks, TIL.