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"ref": "2007, Joe Biden, Promises to Keep, New York: Random House, published 2008, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 110",
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"ref": "1931, Francis Beeding, “10/6”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps",
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Relating to motion and/or to its cause",
"word": "mouvant"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"motive"
],
"word": "motive"
}
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