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
Some years before, Artist Robinson had concluded that the only excuse for painting was to subserve architecture and had applied himself to that problem.
From Time Magazine Archive
The only purpose for which a railroad charter should be granted is to subserve the public interest.
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
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
The public sees two selfishnesses working in the case, and it naturally patronises that which subserves its own interest.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 445 Volume 18, New Series, July 10, 1852 by William Chambers
That it subserves morality we see from the "Republic," where only that poetry is allowed which inculcates virtue, and only because it inculcates virtue.
From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace
For if the passage had only given the meridian plane, but without permitting the astronomer to observe the southing of any fixed star, it would have subserved only one-half its purposes as a meridional instrument.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 by Various
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.
Neither art, taste, nor religion is in any way subserved by these unequalled follies.
From Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands by Maturin Murray Ballou
Its function, the end it subserved, determined its value for society—determined whether public opinion should approve or disapprove of it, whether it was a god of the community or the fetich of an individual.
From An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion by F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons
As soon as the public service ceases to be subserved the offices should at once cease.
From The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. by Various
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
Unscientific introspection 319:3 Science depicts disease as error, as matter versus Mind, and error reversed as subserving the facts of health.
From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy
For this is the foremost of metals, subserving many and the greatest needs of man, and abounds in the earth above all other metals, and is predominant.
From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by William Gilbert
If it should prove otherwise, Congress can at any time amend those laws in such manner as, while subserving the public welfare, not to jeopard the rights, interests, and liberties of the people.
From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 6, part 2: Andrew Johnson by James D. (James Daniel) Richardson
It is further observed that the Veda thus apprehended through reading spontaneously gives rise to the ideas of certain things subserving certain purposes.
From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by George Thibaut
