motivate

"If people think the Met is indispensable, it might motivate them to help us."

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

Garfield, a pediatrician at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, said his experiences with families in the neonatal intensive care unit helped motivate the research.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

Owner Ryan Chapman said, “It’s just a little way to motivate them.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

When asked what would motivate her to get out and vote this November, she contemplated what to say.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Nothing can motivate me out of this bed but an urgent need to go to the bathroom.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

This link between thinking and doing serves a clear function – it motivates us to get the necessities for life.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026

Her relationship frequently crosses boundaries, but Maddie permits it because the attention makes her feel good and motivates her disorder.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026

However perverse and depraved the ideas that animate the Islamic Republic and Hezbollah, they inspire the kind of conviction that motivates people to fight grimly on against the odds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

"Seeing people not have the opportunity to achieve their dreams, that's what motivates and drives me, " she said, echoing an ethos that later became the foundation of the Mobos.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026

He looks at the character’s background, what motivates him in the present, what future he imagines for himself.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

That, he says, is what motivated his Swimmer Turbine idea.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

“It’s a good time to be looking for motivated sellers, buying right and structuring deals that make financial sense,” Carbonare said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2026

New campaign finance filings revealed that much of the advertising flurry was funded by one highly motivated donor: Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest man.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

Luster, who was drawn to the immense challenge of playing “something that’s not something,” wanted to find out what motivated it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

The courses seemed esoteric and disconnected from the race and poverty issues that had motivated me to consider the law in the first place.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

We don’t know what was motivating the solo juror who wanted to send Clancy to jail rather than to a psychiatric hospital.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026

If a client wants to buy, he tries to understand what’s motivating the desire.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

“Who would sell grades for a stats course? Why would someone buy grades? What’s motivating them? Why wouldn’t the university be doing something about it?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

"He's got an ageing parent with a cancer diagnosis. The deepest human dynamic is attachment and connection and if that's what's motivating this I'm not in the least surprised."

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Writing empowered European societies by facilitating political administration and economic exchanges, motivating and guiding exploration and conquest, and making available a range of information and human experience extending into remote places and times.

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