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

He’s heard that by exposing it to the perfect cheeseball pop song — upbeat, sincere — it will excrete a natural hallucinogenic: a profitable slime.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2024

All these adaptations make up for the fact that songbirds never evolved a solution common to other seaside birds -- the ability to excrete excess salt through nasal glands.

From Science Daily • Jan. 24, 2024

To mark their territory, both beaver species deposit mud piles on the ground and excrete castoreum on top.

From National Geographic • Nov. 15, 2023

“You got to learn, Matt,” Ben said, “that Dad just doesn’t allow his children to excrete when he’s on a trip. It’s a family law.”

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy