as in to conceal
to put into a hiding place
the police found the weapon secreted under the driver's seat of the getaway car
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Recent Examples of secrete
The tree secretes gum arabic—a tasteless, nontoxic, pale-white or orange-brown sap that may be harvested at the end of the rainy season in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Erik Zou, JSTOR Daily, 25 Apr. 2025
Majority Don’t Approve Of Trump’s Handling Of Inflation, Border And Trade
The symptoms of perimenopause result from the levels of estrogen and progesterone being secreted by your ovaries progressively dropping over time.
—Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
In some parts of the world, a person may be secreted away or imprisoned by the government without any advanced notification of wrongdoing or chance to make a defense.
—Andrea Seielstad, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2025
When handled, these treefrogs secrete a sticky toxin as a defense, which can be irritating to mucous membranes of people or pets who make contact with them.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 8 Apr. 2025
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Erik Zou, JSTOR Daily, 25 Apr. 2025
Majority Don’t Approve Of Trump’s Handling Of Inflation, Border And Trade
The symptoms of perimenopause result from the levels of estrogen and progesterone being secreted by your ovaries progressively dropping over time.
—Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
In some parts of the world, a person may be secreted away or imprisoned by the government without any advanced notification of wrongdoing or chance to make a defense.
—Andrea Seielstad, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2025
When handled, these treefrogs secrete a sticky toxin as a defense, which can be irritating to mucous membranes of people or pets who make contact with them.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 8 Apr. 2025
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Millions of low-cost devices for media streaming, in-vehicle entertainment, and video projection are infected with malware that turns consumer networks into platforms for distributing malware, concealing nefarious communications, and performing other illicit activities, the FBI has warned.—
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
6 June 2025
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On December 27, 1908, Boy Staunton (a literal boy, double-underlining Davies’s interest in archetypes) throws a snowball with a stone concealed in it at his friend Duncan.—
Casey Cep,
New Yorker,
6 June 2025
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Though Polish presidential candidates often stand as individuals, rather than representatives of a party, there is little hiding their affiliations, and each major party historically endorses and campaigns for a candidate.—
Rob Picheta,
CNN Money,
2 June 2025
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Ukraine was able to smuggle drones deep into Russia by hiding them in the tops of flatbed trucks, which parked near military bases before the drones lifted off to attack planes on the runway.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
2 June 2025
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The authority said its preliminary assessment is that three excavators and six trucks were buried by the landslide.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 May 2025
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Residents struggled on Thursday to absorb the scale of devastation caused by a huge slab of glacier that buried most of their picturesque Swiss village, in what scientists suspect is a dramatic example of climate change’s impact on the Alps.—
Dave Graham,
Christian Science Monitor,
29 May 2025
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“Secrete.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secrete. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.
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