Driving force
Driving force noun - The act of applying force to propel something.
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Means and driving force are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Means" instead a noun phrase "Driving force".
Means
Means noun - How a result is obtained or an end is achieved.
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Synonyms for Means
Driving force and means are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Driving force" instead a noun "Means".
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This is the driving force of the plot: Since becoming adult phoenix means complete immortality, the siblings must kill each other because there only can be one winner per generation.
Source: The Phoenix -
New Moon: After being told, point-blank, by Edward multiple times that he's in love with her, and that it's the driving force behind every action he takes, Bella finally shrugs off her low self-esteem and realises that he means it.
Source: Love Epiphany - Seeing the way the people of Chester's Mill treated her mother has to be a major driving force in her relentless drive to seize control over the town and bulldoze down anyone who's in her way, by any means up to and including blackmail.
Source: Series / Under the Dome
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