- plural of motif.
motifs
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Yes, you’re getting a glorified ad for a tech company, but this wasn’t going to have the uncanny-valley, human-repelling motifs so common in all the other infomercials for A.I. products.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026
In collagelike drawings at the start of each chapter, Ms. Power combines images relating to the chapter’s topic with classical motifs and lines of Homeric Greek.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Among her many motifs, the pumpkin has become iconic in her works.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
"She formulated a philosophy of art she dubbed 'self-obliteration' based on simple motifs of obsessive repetition and proliferation," according to her website.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Chandresh cannot decipher any of it, cannot even tell if the marks are broken into words or simply continuous strings of motifs.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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