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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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True freedom isn't a future milestone; it's built from day one by designing for mobility, choosing clients who respect boundaries, building self-sufficient systems, mastering asynchronous communication, and pricing for a location-independent lifestyle.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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One focused on people with knee and hip osteoarthritis and found that resistance training not only builds strength but also reduces discomfort and improves mobility.—
Dana Santas,
CNN Money,
11 Sep. 2025
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The cognitive scientist studying fish locomotion cannot fully appreciate the experience of swimming by observing from outside the water.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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These are small, identifiable pieces of DNA that are already known to influence key traits like coat color, body structure, locomotion, and behavior.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
31 Aug. 2025
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Over time, your brain recognizes that movement is safe in your stronger, more stable body, leading to expansion of your pain-free range of motion.—
Dana Santas,
CNN Money,
11 Sep. 2025
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For decades, the Pentagon’s fallback has been inertial navigation systems (INS), which use gyroscopes and accelerometers to track motion without external signals.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Motility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/motility. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.
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