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- noun Plural form of
motion . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
motion .
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Examples
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He directs me to the back row of chairs on the left and without a word motions to the man sitting beside me to move over and make room.
Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011
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He directs me to the back row of chairs on the left and without a word motions to the man sitting beside me to move over and make room.
Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011
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He directs me to the back row of chairs on the left and without a word motions to the man sitting beside me to move over and make room.
Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011
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Reading =/= P. E, where just going through the motions is the whole point of doing it.
intertribal: People of the Book intertribal 2010
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Go through the motions is all that is required in the current educational system.
Sound Politics: "Ample provision" is a function of both funding and expenses 2007
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Through it all Bridges anchors the movie, and following Blake through the motions is entertaining for as much as the actor invests him with enough texture and nuance to carry the movie on his weathered back.
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Whatever poetic value they have had, invoking agency to explain planetary motions is scientifically vacuous.
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Interpreting any physical observations as indicative of intelligent agency and hypothesizing that there are conscious, experiences going on that explain specified physical motions is always, in every context, not just the context of pre-human biology, a matter of inference from observed data, and not an observed datum itself.
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Eventually the boatswain motions for "a general council in the great cabin" to decide the contest of authority; meanwhile the drunken revels of the greater part of the crew demonstrate that the formal structures of majority rule elicit base behavior (405).
Love and Merit in the Maritime Historical Novel: Cooper and Scott 2006
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Watching Byrne's twitchy motions from the front-row kinda made me jumpy though.
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