excrete
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Your body also produces about 700 milligrams of sulfites daily as you metabolize the protein in your food and excrete it as sulfate.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2024
The body can then easily excrete the metals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2024
A handful of labs are studying bats from other genera, and initial findings suggest they have varying abilities to excrete and transmit the pandemic virus.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 4, 2023
When dogs excrete resistant bacteria into the environment and home, there is the potential for these bacteria to be passed on to their owners and other people.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2023
He says it helps the body excrete stress hormones.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
When water is lost, the body also excretes key electrolytes such as potassium and sodium.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2025
While slurping, the insect excretes a substance that weakens the tree's defenses and causes damage that impedes the flow of nutrients between root and crown, he said.
From Science Daily ● May 14, 2024
The snail excretes a juvenile form of the worm, which then has 24 hours to find a mammal host to infect or die, according to Dillman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2024
It excretes a sticky substance called honeydew that can collect on outdoor furniture.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2022
“He excretes in prodigious amounts, Karen, not seen on the earth since prehistoric times when dinosaurs let fly,” Ben said.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
Even Walmart’s website sells a roughly two-pound bag of Kopi Luwak coffee, which is made of beans excreted by a civet, for $449.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025
Artificial sweeteners such as sucralose are not metabolized by the human body so they are excreted – this is what makes them low-calorie sugar alternatives.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2024
They also showed that about 30% of the seeds excreted by woodlice and earwigs remained viable.
From Science Magazine ● May 8, 2024
These measures track the roles of surface tension, gravity and inertia in how fluids are excreted from a tube like the urethra.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2024
Occasionally, they excreted live worms with their bloody stools.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
Camels help it spread by eating the pods and excreting them far and wide.
From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2025
He was excreting things he had never seen in his stool before and feeling things he had never felt before.
From Salon ● May 18, 2025
Researchers have long known that mammals and birds can play a key role in spreading seeds, often by eating fruit and then excreting the seeds.
From Science Magazine ● May 8, 2024
It also is exceptional at urination, excreting the human equivalent of 2,500 gallons of urine a day.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2023
When I had finally finished excreting stress hormones, I said, “Don’t tell Babou. Or my dad.”
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
