subserve
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These auditory and reward network pathways likely subserve the mind’s ability to form predictions and expectations during music listening.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 18, 2021
Resting-state fMRI has shown that brain networks that subserve motor and even cognitive functions like language, memory and emotion are continuously and dynamically active in the resting brain.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 7, 2017
In a paper published in The Lancet in February 1916, he posited a “physical or chemical change and a break in the links of the chain of neurons which subserve a particular function.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2016
In The Trial, setting and camera steadily subserve the subject.
From Time Magazine Archive
The real question is, how to make them subserve the objects for which they were intended, and at the same time afford a fair remuneration to the persons owning them.
From Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud
If translated to humans, these findings have important implications for understanding how the hippocampus subserves various cognitive functions that rely on it, such as episodic memory, navigation and imagination.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 3, 2013
It simply subserves, extends, illuminates and liberates Shakespeare's poem.
From Time Magazine Archive
I never could ascertain that it subserves any special function, and the Indians on the Amazon know nothing about its use.”
From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) by Charles Darwin
Mild benediction waves his saintly arm— So, good! but what we want’s a perfect man, Complete and all alive: half travertine Half suits our need, and ill subserves our plan.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Literature and Science, thus considered, nearly constitute the subject-matter of Liberal Education; and, while Science is made to subserve the former of the two injuries, which Revealed Truth sustains,—its exclusion, Literature subserves the latter,—its corruption.
From The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by John Henry Newman
It is noticeable that these decisions have been made only when the interests of these corporations were to be subserved.
From Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud
There were here the best opportunities to employ my talents, since this fruitful land produced in abundance whatever subserved for pleasure and luxury as well as usefulness and comfort.
Such was the purpose subserved by Herschel's theory of the sun.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
Old ideas linger after they have subserved their purposes.
From The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 by Various
In brief, unless some special purpose is subserved thereby, an audience should not long be left in the dark as to the form in which the dramatist thinks he has cast his play.
From Dramatic Technique by George Pierce Baker
Considering the hugging behavior and similar part of the gene, the authors say there’s evidence that “the neural mechanisms subserving social behaviors exist in O. bimaculoides.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 20, 2018
So, doubtless, when beneath thy potence swerving, 'Tis that thou lead'st us by a path unknown, Our seeming deviations all subserving The perfect orbit round the central throne.
From An Anthology of Australian Verse by Bertram Stevens
Social insects furnish us with instances completely to the point,—and instances showing us, indeed, to what a marvelous degree the life of the individual may be absorbed in subserving the lives of other individuals...
From Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn
Its repeated occurrence in Mr. Arnold's pages is but another instance of poetic feeling subserving the ends of criticism.
From Views and Reviews by Henry James
And if some accuse me of subserving the cause of Catholic reaction, others perhaps, the official Catholics....
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
