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Recent Examples of motility
This can happen for many reasons, including a lack of gastrointestinal motility.
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Amber J. Tresca, Verywell Health, 16 May 2025
What’s more, coffee also stimulates gastric motility, or the muscle movements that propel the contents of your GI tract forward.
—Caroline Tien, SELF, 5 May 2025
Coffee can stimulate muscle contractions and gastric motility in your colon, affecting digestion and inducing a bowel movement.
—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
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Amber J. Tresca, Verywell Health, 16 May 2025
What’s more, coffee also stimulates gastric motility, or the muscle movements that propel the contents of your GI tract forward.
—Caroline Tien, SELF, 5 May 2025
Coffee can stimulate muscle contractions and gastric motility in your colon, affecting digestion and inducing a bowel movement.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for motility
Noun
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Finally, Workforce Pell enhances economic mobility.—
Bruno V. Manno,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Shag carpeting or thick, padded carpeting can often reduce the mobility of your office chair.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Aug. 2025
Noun
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For example, the nuance of human locomotion sometimes gets lost in the generative shuffle, producing people who appear to walk backward.—
Ryan Whitwam,
ArsTechnica,
5 Aug. 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
Noun
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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 21 Aug. 2025.
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