motivate

Example Sentences

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He says the hope it engenders can not only help people cope emotionally with a cancer diagnosis but can even motivate them to seek treatment.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026

She wants to see the end of the current regime - but stressed the range of factors that motivate its support base and make change so difficult.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

That was enough to motivate him to go to college; there, he figured out how his brain worked and how to learn.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

Only a call from a persistent lawyer might motivate officers to actually find those items and return them by mail.

From Salon • Mar. 4, 2026

I kept hoping the explanation would turn out to be more complex, that there’d turn out to be more than pure, blind hatred to motivate their actions.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi