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Recent Examples of motility
This two-way street allows your brain to influence your gut’s functions—like motility, secretion, and immune responses.
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Renée Onque, CNBC, 8 Aug. 2025
When medicine to speed up her stomach motility didn’t work, she was given a feeding tube, the mother said.
—Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 July 2025
When zinc attaches to these receptors, sperm motility increases.
—Melissa Nieves, Verywell Health, 4 June 2025
Stress also lowers levels of serotonin, which helps facilitate gut motility and regular bowel movements.
—Brittany Dube, Health, 8 Feb. 2025
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Renée Onque, CNBC, 8 Aug. 2025
When medicine to speed up her stomach motility didn’t work, she was given a feeding tube, the mother said.
—Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 July 2025
When zinc attaches to these receptors, sperm motility increases.
—Melissa Nieves, Verywell Health, 4 June 2025
Stress also lowers levels of serotonin, which helps facilitate gut motility and regular bowel movements.
—Brittany Dube, Health, 8 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for motility
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The company’s commitment extends beyond compensation, with additional benefits such as tuition assistance, professional development programs, career mobility resources, and robust stock award programs.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
18 Sep. 2025
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Expert Judge Panel Laurene Powell Jobs is the founder and president of Emerson Collective, which combines venture investing and philanthropic grant-making to address challenges in education, economic mobility, immigration and the environment.—
Elisabeth Brier,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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The humanoid displays visual recognition capabilities during this instance, reacting to a wave by waving back and performing human-like locomotion by imitating humans.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Sep. 2025
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Since then about 500 generations of brown rats have lived here and have developed unique genetic adaptations related to metabolism, diet, nervous system and locomotion.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
13 Sep. 2025
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The team successfully demonstrated quantum squeezing of the motion of a nanoscale particle, a motion whose uncertainty is smaller than the quantum mechanical fluctuations usually considered the ultimate limit.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Sep. 2025
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In December 2024, Syed’s legal team filed a motion to reduce his life sentence under Maryland's Juvenile Restoration Act, as Syed was not yet 18 at the time of the crime.—
Erin Jensen,
USA Today,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Motility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/motility. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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