Example Sentences

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Synapses are essential for learning, memory, and the formation of thoughts.

From Science Daily • Jan. 19, 2026

Synapses are areas where neurons are in contact with each other and play an important role in transporting information in the nervous system.

From Salon • Feb. 26, 2023

Synapses are primarily flooded with serotonin, which provides a pleasant euphoria allowing someone to face their painful thoughts and feelings.

From Slate • Oct. 16, 2018

Synapses are ever strengthening and weakening, with the complex patterns of their weights encoding the outside world as we experience it.

From Scientific American • Aug. 26, 2013

Synapses shorted with soundless cold fire, and waited in timeless stasis for rechannelling.

From The Cuckoo Clock by Barth, Ernie