motivated
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She said: "Those officers appear to have attended a scene with a belief that they must put anything that is allegedly racially motivated above anything else. And that is absolutely inaccurate, it's wrong."
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
The general unlikability of his characters—odd ducks motivated by ego, profit or both—doesn’t help.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026
Researchers also discovered that the strength of this neural pattern is linked to how socially motivated an individual is.
From Science Daily • Jun. 2, 2026
Our transaction, as David has described, is motivated to create more content to feed the theaters, then streaming.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026
Those would have implied I was motivated by a kind of passion.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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