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Owner Evangelos Marinakis had diluted his control of the club in preparation for Champions League qualification for both Forest and Olympiakos.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2025

In Nakuru, the flamingos seemed to be going elsewhere for food because extra water had diluted the nutrients and the cyanobacteria, Githaiga suggested.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 12, 2024

Furthermore, Lula revoked policies that had diluted environmental protection, including a measure that encouraged mining on protected indigenous lands.

From Reuters • Jan. 4, 2023

But an inability to maximize picks — as cheap talent foremost, but also as trade assets for established players — had diluted a roster that, by then, not even Brady could elevate.

From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2021

And they were little boys, therefore fundamentally uncommunicative, with no gift for intimacy, and worse, they had diluted their identities, for she had never found this missing triangle of flesh.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan