motivated
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Researchers also discovered that the strength of this neural pattern is linked to how socially motivated an individual is.
From Science Daily • Jun. 2, 2026
In an email from the same year, he wrote to Musk: “I am motivated by public recognition for my own work.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026
It interrogated the criteria of credibility themselves—what makes a teaching trustworthy, what makes a source authoritative, what distinguishes faithful transmission from motivated distortion.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
Others seemed motivated by a growing concern that, whether they embraced artificial intelligence or not, they could no longer afford to ignore it.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
On the contrary, this woman looked quite motivated.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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