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Recent Examples of motility
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.
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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
Myo-inositol improves sperm motility (its ability to move).
—Mark Gurarie, Verywell Health, 18 Apr. 2025
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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
Myo-inositol improves sperm motility (its ability to move).
—Mark Gurarie, Verywell Health, 18 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for motility
Noun
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The resulting vehicle incorporates the company’s vision of mobility in 2050, where instinct, technology and the natural environment move in sync.—
Peter Lyon,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2025
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The Pacers have done a good job spotting him into sections of games where physicality is required and mobility is optional, but his best fit is as a third center.—
John Hollinger,
New York Times,
21 June 2025
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By combining locomotion and arm control into a single system, ANYmal-D can adjust its posture and gait based on the shuttlecock's path, moving more like a human player.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
19 June 2025
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But the novella barrels forward with the locomotion evoked in its title, until the end of Grainier’s days, and the end of the Old West.—
The Atlantic,
The Atlantic,
15 May 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 3 Jul. 2025.
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