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incentive

[in-sen-tiv] / ɪnˈsɛn tɪv /


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Tempting food or products online are likely to activate this wanting system, which Berridge calls "incentive salience".

From BBC Sep. 23, 2026

“A debt metric provides an incentive for affordability.”

From MarketWatch Sep. 22, 2026

There’s also been a recent push for a federal film and TV tax incentive.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2026

Another student challenged his plan for public participation in A.I. companies, asking whether the government would then have its own financial incentive to encourage the technology’s growth.

From Slate Sep. 17, 2026

Inventors thereby have a financial incentive to denigrate or ignore previous work.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Zuckerberg said in a post on X that companies such as Meta have incentives “to move at the pace required to train its models safely.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 24, 2026

If you are looking to by a newly constructed home, builders are offering a variety of incentives, as Aarthi Swaminathan reported.

From MarketWatch Sep. 18, 2026

She said outsourcing patient appointments had created financial incentives which were potentially "a risk to clinical standards".

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

He correctly explained that companies already have strong incentives to build robust safeguards and not to rush out new models without adequate testing.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

But high-stakes testing has so radically changed the incentives for teachers that they too now have added reason to cheat.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt




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