as in to conceal
to put into a hiding place
the police found the weapon secreted under the driver's seat of the getaway car
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Recent Examples of secrete
Your brain responds by secreting the hormone vasopressin.
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Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2025
Gallstones are more likely to form when your gallbladder does not properly secrete bile.3 Healthy fats include olive oil, nuts, seeds, and fatty fish.
—Brittany Lubeck, Ms, Rdn, Verywell Health, 16 Jan. 2025
Fat cells are not just passive reservoirs of energy but can secrete hormones that increase inflammation making overweight people more vulnerable to diseases.
—Karina Zaiets, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2024
But the science of menopause is considerably more recent, dating to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when physicians in Europe began to research the effects of chemicals secreted by the body which control reproduction.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
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The film doesn’t conceal the role that informal migrant labor plays in European agriculture and the toll that its informality takes on the migrants.—
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Once concealed structural beams have been exposed, allowing the geometry of the honeycombed ceilings and the pillars to speak honestly, inviting visitors to better understand the integrity of Pereira’s original design.—
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Rogers was found hiding under a bridge nearby and was arrested, authorities said.—
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The couple went viral in 2022 when food blogger Carissa Stanton moved into their former Venice, Calif., home and found old photographs of Dann and Karen hidden in the fireplace.—
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The structure is made of opus reticulatum—bricks laid in a diamond pattern—and contains a volcanic rock called tuff: details suggesting high status individuals were buried here, as Artnet News’ Richard Whiddington reports.—
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Play defense straight up and Bueckers will bury them.—
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“Secrete.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secrete. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.
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