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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

Beavers were hunted to extinction in Britain 400 years ago for their meat, furry water-resistant pelts and a substance they secrete called castoreum - used in food, medicine and perfume.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 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

Anti-obesity treatments mimic a hormone secreted by the intestines, GLP-1.

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

Due to their strength, they can be secreted in small volumes in parcels.

From BBC ● Feb. 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’d found it in one of the storage rooms in the back and secreted it out to his bags under the folds of his grey sweater.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

"This is a tumor suppressor mechanism that had not been described before, and we think the cancers that can turn it off, by secreting less EV-DNA, have a better chance of spreading," Dr. Wortzel said.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 3, 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