Motives
Occasions
Occasions noun - Something you have to do.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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On a couple of occasions Wario has actually helped Mario however, both with and without selfish motives.
Source: Evil Counterpart / Video Games - Subverted twice on The Practice: On 2 occasions, one of the attorneys was defending an old friend for making a questionable judgement call, only to find out in private that the defendant had ulterior motives and was just using their friendship to get a good defense.
Source: Debate and Switch
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