incentive

Companies that sell certain products on Amazon have an added incentive to keep their prices below $10.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

Those extra 25-cent-per-share payments begin with the October-December quarter, and would add more than $650 million in deal costs each quarter — giving David Ellison an increased incentive to quickly close the deal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

This means that they have the incentive to recommend more-expensive options.

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026

Labour rates in China are much lower, which means there is little incentive to minimise the amount of work needed to mend a car.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

Their incentive was not heaps of money, but preventing Count Olaf from doing something horrible to them in order to get heaps of money.

From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket

The restoration on the Mills Act Property, which provides tax incentives to upkeep historic homes, has required an ecosystem of experts, including a colorist and curatorial rug merchant.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

The incentives to create content about that infighting aren’t new, either.

From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2026

Experts I talked to explained that such decline is the economic result of consolidation, which reduces competition and therefore removes incentives for movie studios to take creative risks.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

So both sides have incentives to avoid a major flare up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

If you wanted to predict how people would behave, Munger said, you only had to look at their incentives.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis