motive

There may be a baser motive at play: money.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026

"The investigation is ongoing... We are still trying to identify the motive," police spokeswoman Shella Chang told AFP, adding the crime scene was now being processed.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

Patterson's team say they were inconsistent about a motive, starting the trial by saying they wouldn't argue a particular motive, but ending it by implying there was one.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

“The motive is a little different,” he told me.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

“You should believe it. What other motive could there be?”

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

That possibility gives historians a new way to interpret the AKL and the political motives behind it.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

Like the billionaire geniuses who created social media that wound up depressing, dumbing down and dehumanizing civilization, the motives of these companies were purely financial.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

When Williams' long-mooted comeback finally became a reality, everybody wondered what the motives behind her return were and what she hoped to gain from stepping back on to court.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

Dating coach Jaime Bronstein is a proponent of using LinkedIn with ulterior motives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

This was easy for him to do, for he discovered that the Venetians, moved by other motives, had turned to bringing the French back into Italy.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

The indictment does not say that his expulsion motived his alleged misconduct.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2022

“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

The fact is, however, that all around us forms of business already have developed where we count it shame for a man to be chiefly motived by a desire for private gain.

From Christianity and Progress by Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

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

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