excrete
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The body can then easily excrete the metals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2024
Excess sugar consumption also causes the body to excrete excess calcium, instead of reabsorbing it in the kidney as the body normally would.
From Salon ● May 1, 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
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
Rabbits will not excrete underground and Kehaar’s habit of fouling his own nest had always disgusted Hazel.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
They discovered N. intermedia produces and excretes many enzymes as it grows.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 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 then excretes a sticky, sugary waste called honeydew that attracts insects and a form of sooty mold that can finish off the already weakened plants, posing a danger to crops and native trees.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 28, 2023
This is because the body excretes it too quickly to metabolize it, too tough even for the bacteria in our guts to break it down.
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2023
“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
He explains that if you eat too much, it has to be excreted by the kidneys and liver which can become overloaded.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
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
Similarly, betalains, the pigments responsible for rich reds and yellows, offer detoxifying and anti-inflammatory benefits but are excreted by the body without a visible effect on skin tone.
From Salon ● Jan. 20, 2025
In a final step, the researchers used a chemical process to confirm whether the excreted seeds were capable of germinating.
From Science Magazine ● May 8, 2024
To the guards who walked up and down outside, each car became a single organism which ate and drank and excreted through its ventilators.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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
They lie on and burrow under the sand all day, sucking, digesting, and excreting sediment, consuming bacteria and other organics.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 26, 2024
Human beings in there were excreting into steel helmets which were passed to the people at the ventilators, who dumped them.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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