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Recent Examples of motility
The sperm count and motility dropped, and microscopic analysis revealed damage to the seminiferous tubules, where sperm are formed.
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New Atlas, 13 Oct. 2025
It is also designed to boost your motility and digestion.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 24 Sep. 2025
The team showed that this gliding persists down to –15 degree Celsius, setting a new benchmark for cellular motility in complex, nucleus-bearing organisms.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025
To test male infertility, doctors can look at the concentration of sperm and motility, meaning how active the sperm are.
—Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 29 May 2025
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New Atlas, 13 Oct. 2025
It is also designed to boost your motility and digestion.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 24 Sep. 2025
The team showed that this gliding persists down to –15 degree Celsius, setting a new benchmark for cellular motility in complex, nucleus-bearing organisms.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025
To test male infertility, doctors can look at the concentration of sperm and motility, meaning how active the sperm are.
—Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 29 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for motility
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Under her leadership, the foundation has sharpened its focus on transition into employment and entrepreneurship, using the scale of a major bank to translate corporate resources into measurable social mobility.—
Maggie McGrath,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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The United States, United Arab Emirates, and other jurisdictions are seeing corresponding inflows, reflecting a broader shift toward global diversification and mobility.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
19 Jan. 2026
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Each finger was designed with four degrees of freedom, allowing bending in both directions and enabling fingers to alternate between grasping and locomotion roles.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Jan. 2026
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That is, despite its horse-like proportions, Chalicotherium was almost certainly not a runner; analyses of its limb anatomy suggest that it was very poorly suited for high-speed locomotion.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
18 Jan. 2026
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By modeling this signal across each galaxy, the team measured how fast the gas was moving and how chaotic its motion was.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Jan. 2026
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So a common approach is to use a computer to simulate the fluid’s motion and get an approximate sense of the conditions that seem to produce a blowup.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
9 Jan. 2026
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“Motility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/motility. Accessed 25 Jan. 2026.
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