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Recent Examples of motility
Coffee can stimulate muscle contractions and gastric motility in your colon, affecting digestion and inducing a bowel movement.
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Sherri Gordon, Health, 27 Mar. 2025
Gentle physical movement, even for 10 or 15 minutes, can speed up your gut motility (how quickly waste moves through your GI tract), SELF previously reported.
—Jenna Ryu, SELF, 30 Apr. 2025
Researchers at the Copenhagen University Hospital used a database of almost 80,000 men tracked over 50 years to see whether semen quality—including factors like sperm concentration and motility—was associated with lifespan.
—Simon Spichak, Health, 27 Mar. 2025
What matters most is what is normal for you, Craig Gluckman, MD, an assistant professor of medicine at UCLA Health with a focus on esophageal and gastrointestinal motility disorders, tells SELF.
—Caroline Tien, SELF, 28 Apr. 2025
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Sherri Gordon, Health, 27 Mar. 2025
Gentle physical movement, even for 10 or 15 minutes, can speed up your gut motility (how quickly waste moves through your GI tract), SELF previously reported.
—Jenna Ryu, SELF, 30 Apr. 2025
Researchers at the Copenhagen University Hospital used a database of almost 80,000 men tracked over 50 years to see whether semen quality—including factors like sperm concentration and motility—was associated with lifespan.
—Simon Spichak, Health, 27 Mar. 2025
What matters most is what is normal for you, Craig Gluckman, MD, an assistant professor of medicine at UCLA Health with a focus on esophageal and gastrointestinal motility disorders, tells SELF.
—Caroline Tien, SELF, 28 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for motility
Noun
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Advertisement The protections afforded by the 14th Amendment wiped away African Americans’ fears of colonization programs, as well as rendering state laws restricting interstate mobility and settlement unconstitutional.—
Time,
Time,
14 July 2025
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Supporters applauded the effort to give more notice and assistance to the more than 1 million county residents with some type of disability, such as cognitive impairment or limited mobility.—
Miranda Green,
CBS News,
14 July 2025
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The team also tested regular locomotion, tackling stairs and walking over uneven surfaces.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
17 July 2025
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Leveraging Hexagon's expertise in precision measurement and advanced locomotion, the robot can move efficiently and perform tasks that require both speed and accuracy.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
5 July 2025
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In open session at 5 p.m., the council will give final approval to a change in council procedures to allow for a motion and second before further consideration of an agenda item.—
Laura Groch
Feb. 5,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Feb. 2023
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As the play starts, Demetric Felton Jr. will go in orbit motion to stress the flat of the Ravens.—
Lance Reisland,
cleveland,
4 Feb. 2023
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“Motility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/motility. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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