motivein a sentence
motive as in: What is her motive?
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She believes the profit motive encourages people to satisfy other people's needs.motive = reason (for doing something)
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Detectives will be interested since she had the ability, motive, and opportunity to commit the murder.
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A desire for religious freedom was their motive for leaving England.motive = reason
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Authorities asked that journalist not jump to conclusions while awaiting an investigation of the motive for the shooting.motive = reason (for doing something)
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Snowden said his sole motive was to inform the public.
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The murderer had to have a motive. (source)
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Mr. Jamison allowed Papa and Uncle Hammer several moments to search for a motive behind his masklike face. (source)motive = reason (for doing something)
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THE FROZEN MOTIVES OF RUDY STEINER (source)MOTIVES = reasons for doing something
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The crime, clueless and apparently motiveless, had taken place Saturday night, December19, at the Walker home, on a cattle-raising ranch not far from Tallahassee.† (source)motiveless = lacking a reason for doing something
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There's motive, and Lamar's had other run-ins wif tha law. (source)motive = a reason (for doing something)
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It's an honest answer, but one that still keeps his motives hidden. (source)motives = reasons for doing things
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For Dewey, himself a former sheriff of Finney County (from 1947 to 1955) and, prior to that, a Special Agent of the F.B.I. (between 1940 and 1945 he had served in New Orleans, in San Antonio, in Denver, in Miami, and in San Francisco), was professionally qualified to cope with even as intricate an affair as the apparently motiveless, all but clueless Clutter murders.† (source)motiveless = lacking a reason for doing something
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There may not be any motives as such; desire is not a motive. (source)motive = logical reason
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I know Mom's motives were not entirely selfless: She (like all of us) was motivated by the desire for love and companionship. (source)motives = reasons for doing something
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Hutter growled out his dissatisfaction, for the act led to no advantage, while it threatened to render the warfare more vindictive than ever, and none censure motiveless departures from the right more severely than the mercenary and unprincipled.† (source)motiveless = lacking a reason for doing something
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As if I needed another motive to kill you. (source)motive = reason
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He needed something to spring the spear forward, some way to make it move faster than the fish, some motive force.
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motive = something that causes motion in an inanimate object
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