motivated
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That emphasis on patient choice is what motivated Kakaiya to develop a better way to train clinicians to perform paracervical blocks.
From Slate • Jun. 7, 2026
Having seen their impact in Spain, for the first time the players' moves were as commercially motivated as they were for football reasons.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 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
One might also at first be surprised that the Americas evidently filled up with humans so quickly that people were motivated to keep spreading south toward Patagonia.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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