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That’s not unusual — industries typically ask for a seat at the table, the better to steer discussions to their benefit and dilute any resulting rules.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Many of the Silicon Valley firms that have piled into Anthropic said the timing of Amodei’s push for new, industrywide safety standards makes sense and they weren’t concerned it would dilute interest in the IPO.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Others control the fermentation, dilute the original formulation to reduce alcohol content, or remove alcohol through methods including vacuum distillation or filtration.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

For the Ga Mantse, admitting fault does not dilute the guilt of European empires; rather, it solidifies Africa's moral standing and sets an example as to how to move forward.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

"I'll dilute it. The kit's in the basement."

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

Investors also aren’t thrilled with the impact of the company’s capital raising—most recently $550 million External link from entities connected with the Saudi Public Investment Fund—which dilutes the value of existing shareholders’ stock.

From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026

Only firms in desperate need of cash sell more shares when their valuations are low, because it dilutes existing shareholders and trashes the share price.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026

And as a new fund investor you will be allocated a proportionate share of the existing SpaceX holdings, which merely dilutes existing fund investors’ stakes in SpaceX.

From MarketWatch ● May 27, 2026

But even that movie dilutes Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel to a fraction of its story, reducing all of the text’s thematic resonance to a footnote along with it.

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026

It dilutes the blood, thus creating an abnormal condition in the circulatory system, and may raise the pressure of blood and dilate the heart.

From No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes by Rupert H. Wheldon

But using back-of-the-envelope calculations, based on Meta’s closing share price of $621.03 on Tuesday, $95 billion would make for 152,971,676 new shares, or 5.9% of the company’s third-quarter average diluted share count of 2.573 billion.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

When the dot-com bubble burst, shareholders ended up with diluted ownership stakes in businesses that had lost significant market value.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

The company expects the deal to deliver mid-single digit adjusted diluted earnings per share enhancement in 2027, with a double-digit post-tax return on invested capital within three years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Everything has a chance to mingle before the soup gets diluted.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

Those moist eyes, the white eyeballs and the diluted blue of his pupils, eyes that reflected everything that went on in the class, reacting to everything.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier

They included agreements under which two Abramovich companies would acquire shares in Sibneft-Yugra, increasing his stake and diluting Yugraneft's.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Global connection came with a kind of dispersion, diluting shared connections closer to home while allowing for worldwide discovery.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

Making Shakespeare’s plays accessible is a noble goal, but there are other ways to go about this beyond modernizing the text and diluting its lyrical beauty and nuance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

The move solves an immediate headache by covering Strategy’s preferred dividend obligations, but it does so through the painful, if familiar, route of diluting common shareholders.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

We could cure Daoud right now, or we could try to save more people—like my parents—by conserving every drop and diluting it....But in doing so, we might end up with nothing.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda