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the placing of something out of sight
  • the secretion of their money in the backyard turned out to be a huge mistake

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The first known use of secretion was in 1646

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“Secretion.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secretion. Accessed 11 December 2019.

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