An incentive to act in a particular way; a reason or emotion that makes one want to do something; anything that prompts a choice of action.
Spellcheck seems to have turned motif into motive. I suspect it saw the motif as the motive to spare the doorway from destruction.
Incredible we did not think to do this in the first place, whether solarized or not. Profligate waste is engineered into our lives at every level, even against the unholy profit motive. Golf clap for humanity...🙄 yo…
An incentive to act in a particular way; a reason or emotion that makes one want to do something; anything that prompts a choice of action.
What would his motive be for burning down the cottage?
“Spellcheck seems to have turned motif into motive. I suspect it saw the motif as the motive to spare the doorway from destruction.”
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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CNN Indonesia Judge: Vengeance motive of 4 TNI attacker Andrie Yunus deserves to be questioned via CNN Indonesia (Translated)
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“CNN Indonesia Judge: Vengeance motive of 4 TNI attacker Andrie Yunus deserves to be questioned via CNN Indonesia (Translated)”
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“Inasmuch as there’s a profit motive associated with Republican capitalism, this reason stands dead even with it.”
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(obsolete) An idea or communication that makes one want to act, especially from spiritual sources; a divine prompting.
“Citizens United could be easily overturned. To the rightwing, warn about George Soros. To the leftwing, warn about the Paypal Mafia. Then make them wary of anyone who is trying to keep it in place thinking they have an ulterior motive. So easy.”
“So those are the people whose main motive is simply to disrupt the status quo and they don’t really care how. God is that what British politics has come to.”
“White house page war in iran motive- because Israel wanted it.”
“I don't doubt the person who did it didn't care. As I have repeatedly said, that's not what I'm talking about. We can only speculate on motive. I'm analysing the media's framing of the crime.”
“Alice (almost 3) let herself outside alone for the first time this weekend. Unsupervised. Her motive? wanting to pet the rabbits in our backyard garden.”
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(obsolete, rare) A limb or other bodily organ that can move.
No-one could understand why she had hidden the shovel; her motives were obscure at best.
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