motivate
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“Your example as a parent matters more than anything, so that should motivate you to be financially responsible.”
From MarketWatch • Apr. 4, 2026
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
The night before the second verdict was delivered, Meta introduced a new stock option program to try to motivate its senior executives to grow the company at historic speed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
This threat is acute enough that observers are warning that the ability to anonymously make such large bets on current events could motivate the people involved to alter outcomes for their own financial benefit.
From Salon • Mar. 26, 2026
I had spent as much time with him as I could, trying to motivate him to get well and eat his hay, even offering it to him with my feet.
From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling
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