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motiving

verb

present participle of motive
as in setting off

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for motiving
  1. setting off
  2. pumping up
  3. motivating
  4. animating
  5. activating
  6. driving
  7. energizing
  8. inducing
Verb
  • In April 2025, then-Commission Chair Chris Measmer resigned to fill a vacancy in the North Carolina Senate, setting off a contentious replacement process.
    — Nora O'Neill, Charlotte Observer, 22 Sep. 2026
  • During surveillance, Joe recognizes one of the men involved in her abduction, setting off an operation that erupts into a deadly restaurant shootout.
    — Deirdre Durkan, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of setting off
Verb
  • When showing a complex picture with many different hues next to each other, though, pumping up the output of individual LED colors can cause the edges of those hues to tint and warp.
    — Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Several stock indexes, including the NASDAQ 100, also relaxed rules for how soon new issues could be included, further pumping up demand.
    — John Ruwitch, NPR, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of pumping up
Verb
  • There’s something motivating you that the rest of people right now just don’t understand.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Determined, Teagan bulldozes her way through the boathouse, eventually becoming the team’s coxswain, the only non-rowing member who is tasked with steering, managing the race plan and motivating the rest of the team.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of motivating
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  • Countless hours since last December were spent writing scripts, doing voices, writing and composing pieces of original music, editing, and, of course, animating.
    — Matt Reigle OutKick, FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • In both cases, the animating force is not social conservatism alone but hostility toward immigrants, and toward Muslims in particular.
    — Faisal Devji, Time, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of animating
Verb
  • This worker should own every stage, including attracting attention, nurturing intent, converting demand, activating customers, maximizing revenue and turning customers into distribution.
    — Jake Lee, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Researchers therefore began exploring partial reprogramming, briefly activating the Yamanaka factors in ways that appear to rejuvenate cells while maintaining their specialized identities.
    — Venki Ramakrishnan, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of activating
Verb
  • Assigning officers to walk in community beat patrols instead of driving around in cars.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Health workers are receiving the Ervebo shot, a vaccine effective against a different Ebola strain than the Bundibugyo virus, which is driving this outbreak and has no licensed vaccine or treatment.
    — Constant Same Bagalwa, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of driving
Verb
  • The bold clarity of the performances was energizing, but the wailing sometimes sounded like parody grief.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Sunlight streams in brighter, energizing the home, and your whole exterior gets a fresh lift.
    — Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of energizing
Verb
  • Officials are betting, the gamification strategy – using a points system to track the habit for a modest reward – and a sense of public participation can help to restore a habit being fast replaced by brain rot-inducing doomscrolling.
    — Kathleen Magramo, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2026
  • And when the loan sharks come calling, his barely-a-business plan starts crumbling in wince-inducing fashion.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of inducing
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“Motiving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/motiving. Accessed 25 Sep. 2026.

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