as in secreting
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to pass (waste matter) from the body or from an organ in the body
excrete sweat The kidneys excrete toxins.
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Recent Examples of excreting
This pair of organs is responsible for filtering and excreting drugs from your body.
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Carrie Madormo,
Health,
7 Apr. 2026
This would be in accordance with the universal law of capital devouring everything potentially good and excreting it as something actually bad.
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Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
In fact, the birds let loose with the feces every four to ten minutes while in flight, excreting roughly 5 percent of their body mass every hour.
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ArsTechnica,
31 Aug. 2025
Carrie Madormo,
Health,
7 Apr. 2026
This would be in accordance with the universal law of capital devouring everything potentially good and excreting it as something actually bad.
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Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
In fact, the birds let loose with the feces every four to ten minutes while in flight, excreting roughly 5 percent of their body mass every hour.
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ArsTechnica,
31 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for excreting
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When activated by heat, the spores awaken and begin secreting enzymes that chemically break down the material from within.
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One type of polyp handles feeding, extending above the sand and secreting a mucus net to capture small prey.
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Senate Bill 123 prohibits schools from expelling students solely because of excessive absences or truancy.
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The garment also absorbs heats, carrying it away from the spacesuit's life-support system, expelling it into space.
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The program was cut as the city navigated a $66 million budget shortfall, most of which was balanced by eliminating around 100 vacant positions, issuing a few pink slips, raising fees and cutting spending on homelessness.
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Prestigious universities, including Miami, Tulane, WashU, and UNC, are eliminating supplemental essays from their college applications, following a trend set by TCU and UVA.
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Tianwen-1 is a Mars orbiter, lander and rover mission that successfully touched down on the red planet on May 15, 2021, releasing its Zhurong rover.
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After releasing albums across genres, both country and dance music, there has been growing speculation that the last project in the trilogy could be a rock album.
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Ground robots are hauling ammunition, evacuating wounded troops, laying mines, and increasingly carrying weapons into combat as Ukraine tries to replace as many frontline tasks as possible with machines.
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More ships entered the Gulf over the weekend than departed, reversing a trend seen over the previous week, when efforts focused on evacuating seafarers stranded in the Gulf.
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