"motive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The police said all possible motives, including reports of a feud among the immigrants, remained under examination.
- The motive for her killing remains a mystery, though few doubt it was related to her work.
- His true motives usually remain masked, and whether he is honorable or evil depends on the audience's perspective.
- The motives of such an ascent have remained unclear.
- Decades of academic examination later, his own motives remain far from clear-cut.
- He said that the motive remained murky but added that the killings did not appear to be related to drugs or gang activity.
- Though the assassination came in the wake of student protests and pro-democracy agitation, the killer's political motives have remained a bit opaque.
- But motives to get labour cheaply still remain (and always will).
- The expression of status generalization is salient in everyday life, but motives have remained relatively ambiguous.
- Pond never said so; and his motive remained rather a mystery.
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