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
Because your father has trained Orlean to obey and subserve to his will, he has done something to her, and she has become a demon instead of a weakling.
From The Homesteader A Novel by Oscar Micheaux
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
When freedom subserves this end, it is a good; when it defeats this end, it is an evil.
From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by E. N. Elliott
He thought that vowels can be as skilfully combined and interchanged as differing notes of music, and that monotony should only be allowed when it subserves some special purpose.
From Life of John Keats by William Michael Rossetti
Where government aims at and subserves this end it is a blessing.
From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 11, November, 1880 by Aaron Walker
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.
By this means the interests of these railroad managers are subserved in more than one particular.
From Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud
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
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 sole interest subserved by Direct and Simple Exchanges is that of Labor; and this, though greatest of all, is unorganized, inert, and individually impotent.
From Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. by Horace Greeley
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
You fill with the dead matter of your construction the places where assimilation ought to have its perfect work, building by a life-process, self-extending, and subserving the whole.
From Weighed and Wanting by George MacDonald
In the whole group of leaf-climbers abundant evidence has been given that an organ, still subserving the functions of a leaf, may become sensitive to a touch, and thus grasp an adjoining object.
From The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants by Charles Darwin
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
I think every Person's Aim should be to be subserving as much as possible, to the Delight and Amusement of his Fellow-Creatures.
From A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) by Thomas Purney
