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  • She is motivated by a sincere desire to help others.
    motivated = made to want to do something
  • The opposing player's tweet motivated the team to want a win.
    motivated = made someone want to do something
  • Increased price will motivate increased production.
    motivate = provide a reason (to make something happen)
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  • I think the decision was motivated by self-interest.
    motivated = provided with a reason (to do something)
  • Any saying or ground rule that can motivate you.  (source)
    motivate = make someone want to do something
  • That was one of the motivating forces pushing Trisolaran civilization to tenaciously come back again and again.†  (source)
    motivating = making someone want to do something
  • Social psychologists have shown that group belief is a powerful motivator in performance.†  (source)
    motivator = someone or something that makes someone want to do something
  • Instead of feeling fast and full of fight, I felt heavy and strangely unmotivated, almost as if I weren't really playing the game but was instead watching it from somewhere inside my head.†  (source)
    unmotivated = not wanting to do something
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unmotivated means not and reverses the meaning of motivated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • I think it's truthful, and I hope it inspires and motivates people to tackle any obstacles in their lives.†  (source)
    motivates = makes someone want to do something
  • I have to get motivated, he thought, remembering Perpich.  (source)
    motivated = enthusiastic (wanting to do something)
  • "Chris would use the spiritual aspect to try to motivate us," recalls Eric Hathaway, another friend on the team.  (source)
    motivate = make someone want to do something
  • He found her carnal and motivating.†  (source)
    motivating = making someone want to do something
  • Fear, Langdon now realized, was an intense motivator.†  (source)
    motivator = someone or something that makes someone want to do something
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