move to
idiom
1
: to cause (someone) to feel (an emotion and especially sadness or sympathy)
He's not easily moved to anger.
2
: to cause (someone) to act or think in a specified way
The report moved me to change my mind.
His arguments moved them to reconsider the plan.
I felt moved to speak.
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Getty Images Trump Becomes a War President The move to send American troops into Iranian airspace to drop 30,000-lb. bombs on its soil represents an extraordinary ramping up of tensions between Iran and the West, and nothing less than a reordering of American foreign policy.
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Carlo Versano
adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 June 2025
Ware was an All-Rookie second-team selection after averaging nearly a double-double after the All-Star break while allowing Bam Adebayo to move to power forward.
—Law Murray, New York Times, 22 June 2025
How to act during strong winds Take shelter: Immediately go inside a sturdy building during a high wind warning or severe thunderstorm warning and move to an interior room or basement.
—Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 22 June 2025
Well into his 70s, Wilson still made his fans move to his music and set their thousands of bodies swaying as one, so that an entire audience became a single being sending good vibrations across time and space.
—Patricia Schultheis, Baltimore Sun, 21 June 2025
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Carlo Versano
adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 June 2025
Ware was an All-Rookie second-team selection after averaging nearly a double-double after the All-Star break while allowing Bam Adebayo to move to power forward.
—Law Murray, New York Times, 22 June 2025
How to act during strong winds Take shelter: Immediately go inside a sturdy building during a high wind warning or severe thunderstorm warning and move to an interior room or basement.
—Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 22 June 2025
Well into his 70s, Wilson still made his fans move to his music and set their thousands of bodies swaying as one, so that an entire audience became a single being sending good vibrations across time and space.
—Patricia Schultheis, Baltimore Sun, 21 June 2025
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“Move to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/move%20to. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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