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Example sentences for: motive

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As someone who was basically put out of business by the Washington Post , Waldrop would certainly have had the motive to demystify its greatest journalistic coup.
A unified currency makes economic sense, but trade efficiency is only one motive for many governments.
Parallel to the strategic bequest motive, we can hypothesize a "strategic gift motive" that operates while the parents are still alive.
While some evidence supports each motive, economists do not have a unified theory that fully explains how people choose to save.
No one ever discovered the identity or the motive of the culprits.