motivate
Example Sentences
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Investors aren’t generally motivated to look too far into the past.
From Barron's
Investors aren’t generally motivated to look too far into the past.
From Barron's
Nagi says that the conversation motivated her to visit the boy's slum community and she offered to spruce up the locality by decorating the walls with murals.
From BBC
Not all Equity for Punks investors were motivated by the chance of a windfall profit.
From BBC
At the High Court, barrister David Sherborne, representing Baroness Lawrence, questioned Wright about whether the Daily Mail's reporting was partly motivated by a belief that the Lawrence family was benefiting financially from the case.
From BBC
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