motivate
Example Sentences
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To listen to the moderates—and the press that glorified their move—they were motivated by deep compassion.
He took time to see "whether I'm motivated or it's the best decision for me" to return for the final year of his contract and "take on all of that responsibility".
From BBC
“A motivated user can still use tricks to get dangerous information out of them,” he said.
Other cables labelled him a "symbol of kleptocratic government and violent politics" and accused him of being "phenomenally corrupt" -- claims he rejected as politically motivated.
From Barron's
Specious ones to the left, weird ones to the right—all arise from motivated reasoning.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
