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subserve

[suhb-surv] / səbˈsɜrv /


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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

He would certainly not destroy the earth unless there was thereby some noble and beneficent purpose to subserve.

From A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead by C. G. (Carl Gustaf) Helleberg

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

It is no longer a restless agent, without definite aim; it has a large field of exertion assigned to it, and it subserves those social interests which it would naturally trouble.

From The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by John Henry Newman

Control of Legislation and Finance.—The principal and altogether most indispensable ends which Parliament to-day subserves are those of legislation and of financial control.

From The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg

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

In this way he knows that every interest of the empire, even its integrity, would be best subserved.

From Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) by Various

For more than twenty years magneto-electricity had subserved its first and noblest purpose of augmenting our knowledge of the powers of nature.

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall

The end is fairly though not cheaply subserved.

From Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. by Horace Greeley

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

The Inquisition exercised a censorship over everything designed for publication, and unless it subserved the interest of that fiendish institution, it was made to do so, or it was suppressed.

From Aztec Land by Maturin Murray Ballou

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

The soldier might be a roving knight, and the priest a martyr and a saint; but both alike were subserving the interests of that commerce which formed the only solid basis of the colony.

From Pioneers of France in the New World by Francis Parkman

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

The first germs of science were very simple, existing in connection with Art, and subserving the purposes of priestcraft.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

Lady Carlisle vainly warns him of his danger in subserving the King's designs.

From A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Mrs. Sutherland Orr




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