Sample Sentences for
motivation
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    I can describe her actions but not her motivation.
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    This proved to be the only motivation I needed.  (source)
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    I bite my lip trying to figure out his motivation.  (source)
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    If I knew for sure that I, and I alone, was your motivation ….  (source)
    motivation = reason for doing something
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    He's testified that the bomb was designed to be detonated, but he can't really explain your motivations—the Court won't permit that, and he really can't speak to that.  (source)
    motivations = reasons for doing something
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    When I throw on top of that the necessity of continuing laboratory research, writing papers, preparing lectures, remaining involved in academic projects, and more recently, presenting motivational talks to young people, there weren't enough hours in any day or week.†  (source)
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    One weapon, and with every passing year in this hip, motivationally researched society, more and more people are discovering how to render that weapon useless and conquer those who have hitherto been the conquerors—†  (source)
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    Until we knew what Ender's motivation was, we couldn't be sure he wasn't another. We had to know what the action meant.  (source)
    motivation = reason for doing something
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    Surely his motivations are more delicate than that.†  (source)
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    My mother was a motivational speaker.†  (source)
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    Connor's motivation was simple: Make them suffer.  (source)
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    I don't know his motivations, his desires.†  (source)
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    "You know," I said, "you should be a motivational speaker, or something."†  (source)
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