motivate

Example Sentences

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He says the hope it engenders can not only help people cope emotionally with a cancer diagnosis but can even motivate them to seek treatment.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026

The night before the second verdict was delivered, Meta introduced a new stock option program to try to motivate its senior executives to grow the company at historic speed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

That was enough to motivate him to go to college; there, he figured out how his brain worked and how to learn.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

Only a call from a persistent lawyer might motivate officers to actually find those items and return them by mail.

From Salon • Mar. 4, 2026

She knew that it would take four months and lots of frozen fish to motivate Maxwell to make his way to the sky again.

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers