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well-motivated

adjective

  1. (of a person, intention, etc) have sufficient incentive, desire, or drive
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Lee was “well-intentioned and well-motivated by that,” Bouchard continued.

They include well-established facts—such as the tendency for red dwarf stars to emit strong flares and other stellar outbursts that could strip planets of their atmospheres—in addition to well-motivated speculations, such as asteroid impacts upon a young planet needing to be in a Goldilocks-like state of neither too numerous to disrupt biogenesis nor too sparse to starve prebiotic chemistry of molecular precursors thought necessary for life’s origins.

Compared with some ideas, boson stars “are very concrete models that are theoretically sound and well-motivated,” Cunha says.

Many Russian units also have low morale, a depressed mood that contrasts sharply with Ukraine’s well-motivated forces.

Who in power, however sincere and well-motivated, can we be sure has the insight to differentiate — accurately and free of bias — truth from disinformation, right beliefs from wrong ones, so as to allow the one and censor the other?

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