secreting

present participle of secrete

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Recent Examples of secreting Key Takeaways The gallbladder plays a role in digestion by secreting bile to help digest fats after meals. Angela Ryan Lee, Verywell Health, 23 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for secreting
Verb
  • What begins as a crime caper morphs into an unexpected rom-com as Jeff spends more time with Leigh’s family and even joins her local church, all while concealing his real identity and living behind a display of bicycles at Leigh’s workplace.
    Keaton Bell, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Snelling is currently charged with abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence and concealing the birth of an infant.
    Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Only instead of ignoring or burying this awful truth, Kai travels the world, speaking at synagogues and in Jewish community centers about his family’s dark past — and at high schools and colleges to ensure that the atrocities of Nazi Germany are never forgotten or sanitized.
    Johnny Dodd, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Transformation in all its transgressive aspect had been part of my original obsession with pigment, that step by strange step—adding, grinding, titrating, burning, sometimes burying for more than a year—something becomes another thing.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • And inside the hedges was my tour photographer hiding in bushes that had not previously been there.
    Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
  • In 2024, Machado’s candidacy was blocked, she was prevented from leaving the country, and she has been forced to live in hiding.
    Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 10 Oct. 2025

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“Secreting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secreting. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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