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Recent Examples of motility
That can futz with gut motility, speeding up or slowing down the passage of food or causing spasms.
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Erica Sloan, SELF, 27 Aug. 2025
This two-way street allows your brain to influence your gut’s functions—like motility, secretion, and immune responses.
—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
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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Erica Sloan, SELF, 27 Aug. 2025
This two-way street allows your brain to influence your gut’s functions—like motility, secretion, and immune responses.
—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
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
Noun
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Manning's mobility has also flashed this season.—
Chantz Martin,
FOXNews.com,
9 Oct. 2025
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Operating at just 45 dBA, the S4 is designed specially for air mobility markets.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The engineers explain that the robot’s balance and locomotion have been trained in a simulated environment with slopes, obstacles, and interfering forces, where it has been run for hundreds of thousands of virtual hours.—
Billy Perrigo,
Time,
9 Oct. 2025
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Something about the idea my father had that summer, something about swimming as a form of locomotion across the landscape, stays with people.—
Susan Cheever,
Vogue,
29 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Voice controls with Alexa or Google add convenience, while motion alerts hit your phone fast enough to actually matter.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
9 Oct. 2025
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Ruiz’s family had cobbled together money for a private attorney, who filed motions to challenge his conviction and sentence.—
Amy Yurkanin,
ProPublica,
9 Oct. 2025
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“Motility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/motility. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.
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