excrete

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Recent Examples of excrete And maybe that meal has been excreted by a microbe. Bill Chappell, NPR, 10 Sep. 2025 During the 30-day experiment, rats on a diet comprised of 60% fat – far higher than the 35% to 40% typically seen in human diets – excreted more fat after eating the microbeads, but without side effects or blood sugar fluctuations. Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 3 Sep. 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. ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2025 The fecal tests revealed that these rats excreted more undigested fat in their waste, with no signs of gut discomfort. Jay Kakade august 30, New Atlas, 30 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for excrete
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Verb
  • In a 2023 report in Science, their team found that morphogens were indeed secreted just before a feather follicle started to bud.
    Anna Demming, Quanta Magazine, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Melatonin Melatonin is a hormone secreted primarily by the pineal gland (located deep in the brain).
    Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Gordy Heminger, president and chief executive officer of the Alpha Sigma Phi International Fraternity, confirmed to The Asbury Park Press its members at the New Jersey university would be expelled from the organization.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The labor agreement gives Silver the immediate power to suspend or expel Rozier from the league if NBA has reason to believe the charges against him are true.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This includes thinking vertically and adding hooks to dangle gear on wall space or finding ways to pop in clever items, like storage benches, that double as organizational features and help eliminate dust buildup.
    Michelle Mastro, Architectural Digest, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Ursillo and other opponents who spoke during the public hearing had urged the Zoning Commission to delay a vote to allow time to consider potential changes, such as eliminating special exceptions and keeping lower height limits intact around the Boston Common.
    Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 23 Oct. 2025

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