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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 thus subserves the same purpose for English publications, which the American Catalogue fulfills for those of the United States.

From A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries by Spofford, Ainsworth Rand

In a word, everything is infinite, and subserves an infinite purpose.

From Nature and Culture by Rice, Harvey

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 Ogg, Frederic Austin