motivated
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“My nerves motivated me, but then they turned around and paralyzed me,” she wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Anderson says much of his work involving clay deposits was originally motivated by the search for life on other planets.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
Arday, who became Cambridge's youngest black professor in 2023, had himself claimed to be the target of a "racially motivated" campaign.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
But what may have most motivated her to condemn Wiener was that it was an opportunity to condemn Wiener.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026
The day before, he had telegrammed President Kennedy and listed twenty different, racially motivated, unpunished actions taken by white men against black people in Birmingham.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
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