motive

His every motive feels ulterior, and his inevitable simmering romance with Lowen resembles a can of worms that could pop open at any moment.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

Ultimately, the motive is for everyone to make the journey across the board.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

The useful motive is the one everyone thinks of first: I need that potato peeler.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Authorities didn’t name the men or provide details about a possible motive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

The only specific people left on my list were Kerns and Dave, and both continued to be nowhere in terms of motive.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

There are roughly a dozen distinct motives for keeping things, Ekerdt said, and they break down into two broad camps: things that are useful and things that are symbolic.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

They certainly seem sincere, but some investors suspected ulterior motives when CEOs were so quick to consider tapping the brakes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

It added that no suspects or motives had been identified, but the national police unit was investigating.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

I’m interested in people’s motives behind storytelling and what’s in, what’s cool, what’s hot, what has currency, and what are the intentions of the people telling those stories?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

I don’t trust Estraven, whose motives are forever obscure; I don’t like him; yet I feel and respond to his authority as surely as I do to the warmth of the sun.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Hong Kong has become a focus under heightened US-China tensions, which motived him to pay more attention to international affairs, Kam said.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2023

“I said my philosophy is motived by the Beatitudes and by Matthew 25:40 about the ‘least of these,’” Mr. Kennedy recounted.

From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2022

“I think that’s why I have useful expertise in trying to solve problems, and am motived to work hard with other stakeholders on consensus solutions.”

From Washington Post ● Oct. 23, 2017

Here are 21 inspiring quotes that will get you hyped up and keep you motived as an entrepreneur.

From Time ● Aug. 18, 2015

That was the reason which motived the "decree" of Lenine on the socialization of the soil, which decree appeared immediately after the coup d'état.

From Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy by John Spargo

And through all the talk, through the busy routine of the place, in the men and women working in the hospital, there emerged always that something unseen,—Idea, Will, Spirit, the motiving force of the whole.

From Together by Robert Herrick

Her conception of a play of passion forbids motiving of character, or integration of the development of character with action.

From Tragedy by Ashley H. Thorndike

But your Lamia has taught you some subtle 'viperine' reasoning and motiving, for the turning down one street instead of another.

From The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 by Robert Browning