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secrete

[si-kreet] / sɪˈkrit /




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Species known as Anthony's poison arrow frog and the Phantasmal poison frog are among those that secrete the toxin onto their skin.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2026

These creatures, more commonly known as violet snails, are distinguished by their striking purple shell and the delicate bubble raft they secrete to stay afloat in the open ocean.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2025

Her team pays attention to other stress markers, such as that they secrete mucus when biologically stressed.

From Salon ● May 13, 2025

Dr. Lyden and colleagues have found in prior research that tumor cells secrete snippets of EV-DNA from across their genomes, including pieces with cancer-associated mutations.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 3, 2024

Maybe: they secrete chemicals the way insects do, or perhaps the movements of their eyestalks is a form of language similar to the dance of a bee.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

We had only one battered paperback copy of “Brown Face, Big Master,” and though the book was secreted away, I found it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

It mimics a hormone secreted alongside insulin that signals fullness and slows gastric emptying.

From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026

The team then narrowed their focus to proteins that are secreted outside cells, a key feature of hormones, and that contain multiple potential cleavage points.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 12, 2026

I, however, wandered around the block onto a nondescript residential street seeking out a building with a secreted Ftarri sign.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025

He secreted the strangler seeds in one of them, threw open his door, and called, "Pylos? Where are you?"

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

This system was able to test both direct, physical interactions among the bacteria, as well as whether these species could affect each other from a distance, for example by secreting active substances.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 15, 2024

The researchers isolated vSSCs from people undergoing spinal surgery and found that human vSSCs secreting MFGE8 were more likely to interact with cancer cells than vSSCs that were not secreting the protein.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 14, 2023

He adds that this is the first record of land-dwelling invertebrates producing and secreting this particular neurotoxin.

From National Geographic ● Aug. 4, 2023

The bacteria works by secreting a small molecule, known as harmane, which inhibits the early stages of the malaria parasite growing in the mosquito's gut.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2023

They talked about their first mission, taking children, a brother and sister, out of the program and secreting them away through a series of friends and allies.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline


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