motive
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S&P Global said Wednesday it reached an agreement with a group led by majority investor Motive Partners to acquire With Intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025
One surprise win was The Motive And The Cue star Mark Gatiss, who won best actor in a play.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2024
“The Motive and the Cue” has had two sellout runs in London and will be broadcast in cinemas in Britain and internationally starting Thursday as part of the National Theatre Live series.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 21, 2024
That’s the setting for “The Motive and the Cue,” a new play directed by Sam Mendes, written by Jack Thorne, and starring Mark Gatiss as Gielgud, Johnny Flynn as Burton and Tuppence Middleton as Taylor.
From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2023
I cannot abide how little we know other men’s Motive Parts, I speculate might there be a Manner in which we might map the Springs of the Brain & its Excitations?
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing motive
The SAT: Language of the Test, List 3
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