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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

Even now the mechanism in the dog is not sufficiently precise to subserve the only function which occasionally and abortively it attempts to perform.

From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by Romanes, George John

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

The fluid with which the mouth is constantly moistened is called mucus, and chiefly subserves to the sense of taste.

From Mind Amongst the Spindles by Various

He evidently subserves some useful purpose in the avian community, or he would not be treated with so much consideration.

From Our Bird Comrades by Keyser, Leander S. (Leander Sylvester)

It is only right when it subserves the great end of justice; and if it fail to answer this end it is then worse than worthless.

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 Elliott, E. N.

A dried and even tanned hide, could it have been fitted to her person with sufficient exactness, would have subserved nearly the same purposes.

From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

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 Cloud, D. C.

It is the same which is subserved by the quivering of the leaves of trees.

From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul

The magnification of the image reminds us of the second purpose which is subserved by a telescope.

From Pleasures of the telescope An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers by Serviss, Garrett Putman

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

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 Richardson, James D. (James Daniel)

But no man is permitted to infringe any one of the great rules of morality and justice, for the sake of subserving the interests of his party.

From Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 by Bartlett, D. W.

Moreover, knowledge subserving direct self-preservation is that which it is chiefly busied in acquiring from hour to hour.

From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Spencer, Herbert

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 Purney, Thomas