How to pronounce motive
Listen to motive in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“motive” in real sentences
937 clips in the index · 120 American · 112 British · 5 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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the motive? What's the motive?
ABC News In-depth · hear it here
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motive, a community motive, or just an accuracy and information motive, all of those things would
TED · hear it here
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motive is strategic, whether the motive is financial, whether the motive is geopolitical, whether it’s a
State Department · hear it here
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What if the motive that William James said was the religious motive?
Intelligence Squared · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of motive. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.