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, 12 Nov. 2025
This would be in accordance with the universal law of capital devouring everything potentially good and excreting it as something actually bad.
—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.
—ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2025
Carrie Madormo, Health, 12 Nov. 2025
This would be in accordance with the universal law of capital devouring everything potentially good and excreting it as something actually bad.
—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.
—ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for excreting
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Organoids that actually work The team also demonstrated endodermal differentiation by producing insulin-secreting islet organoids.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Jan. 2026
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The virus targets the mammary gland's milk-secreting epithelial cells, causing painful infections in the udder.—
Pranjal Malewar,
New Atlas,
3 Nov. 2025
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Wheatley made her offer before he’d even succeeded in expelling the British from Boston.—
Jake Lundberg,
The Atlantic,
7 Jan. 2026
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In August, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese accused Iran of directing at least two antisemitic attacks in Australia, expelling the Iranian ambassador to Canberra in response.—
Jackie Zhou,
NBC news,
16 Dec. 2025
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It was last renovated in the 1990s by Andrés Balazs, who gave it a more contemporary feel without eliminating old-school charms.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
12 Jan. 2026
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By eliminating heavy abrasion, jeans are less lightly to breakdown prematurely.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
12 Jan. 2026
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The company has said releasing certain information publicly would compromise its business.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
28 Jan. 2026
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However, quickly after releasing these updates — which are intended to keep core system services functioning on devices that no longer receive major iOS releases — Apple stopped signing them.—
Kate O'Flaherty,
Forbes.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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Madera said from personal experience, evacuating in such a short time can be overwhelming.—
Amy Johnson,
CBS News,
15 Jan. 2026
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The evacuating Crew-11 includes NASA astronauts Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman, Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Kimiya Yui and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov.—
Claire Cameron,
Scientific American,
15 Jan. 2026
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“Excreting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excreting. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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