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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 four-episode thriller series stars Eve Myles (The Crow Girl, Broadchurch) and Gabrielle Creevy (Black Doves, Three Women) combines action, intrigue and twists, and themes of class and social mobility.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
2 Oct. 2025
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Patients are then monitored closely for outcomes, with the aim of improving mobility, reducing pain, and enhancing energy levels and overall health.—
Nia Bowers,
USA Today,
2 Oct. 2025
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In 2024–2025, Boston Dynamics emphasized an all-electric Atlas that continues to demonstrate advanced dynamic behaviors and serves as a technical benchmark for high-performance balance and locomotion.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
26 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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Combs' lawyers had previously filed a motion asking Subramanian to either overturn his criminal conviction on the transportation to engage in prostitution charges, or alternatively, grant him a new trial.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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But the helicase acts like a brake, causing the molecule to go through with a ratcheting motion, one base at a time, at a still-lively rate of about 400 bases per second.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Motility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/motility. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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