motivation
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The San Francisco Police Department arrested a 20-year-old man in connection with the Friday morning attack but did not publicly comment on the motivation.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
Capt. Zefanus Waruwu was ordering his nine fellow Indonesian crew to sing, jog and do push-ups on deck, “to keep motivation up,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
He had suffered mental health issues and had expressed "motivation" to move away from offending.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
Without pressure from consumers or regulators, companies may have little motivation to switch to safer methods.
From Science Daily • Apr. 2, 2026
With the Earth the center of the Universe, with creation pivoted about terrestrial events, with the heavens imagined constructed on utterly unearthly principles, there was little motivation for astronomical observations.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing motivation
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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The SAT: Language of the Test, List 3
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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