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  • noun Agent noun of motivate; one who motivates.

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  • noun a positive motivational influence

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Examples

  • The other motivator is a little more complicated, but the words of a recent country song say it well …

    Stepping Up 2007

  • Mr. Mack was known as a motivator of the traders who gave him a standing ovation when he returned from four years in exile to take control of Morgan Stanley from Chief Executive Philip Purcell .

    Morgan Stanley's Mack to Leave at Year's End Aaron Lucchetti 2011

  • The only motivator is getting what you want, aka, the quality movies/music/software, the only ethics involved are that people that file share on a regular basis attempt to maintain an adequate ratio of up: down.

    P2P pirates are lazy freeloaders 2009

  • True or not, one big motivator is that they [Americans] have invaded our countries and killed our women and children, and destroyed our way of life; to remove them and prevent this, we need a persuasive deterrent.

    sorry seems to be the hardest word... 2009

  • That was one main motivator in creating the SETI Institute Talk series.

    SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Adrian Brown -- The Time for Mars is Now SETI Institute 2010

  • True or not, one big motivator is that they [Americans] have invaded our countries and killed our women and children, and destroyed our way of life; to remove them and prevent this, we need a persuasive deterrent.

    sorry seems to be the hardest word... 2009

  • True or not, one big motivator is that they [Americans] have invaded our countries and killed our women and children, and destroyed our way of life; to remove them and prevent this, we need a persuasive deterrent.

    11 posts from May 2009 2009

  • True or not, one big motivator is that they [Americans] have invaded our countries and killed our women and children, and destroyed our way of life; to remove them and prevent this, we need a persuasive deterrent.

    Geopolitics 2010

  • The point about money as an ineffective motivator is a good one.

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch » Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Risks (Part One) 2010

  • Another motivator is sheer curiosity about the thinking of those who disagree with me.

    Carry-Over Thread 2007

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