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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a ulterior" is not correct in English; it should be "an ulterior." You can use "an ulterior" when referring to a hidden or concealed motive behind someone's actions or intentions.
Example: "She had an ulterior motive for helping him with his project."
Alternatives: "a hidden motive" or "a concealed intention."
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Donald Runnicles, the ensemble's principal conductor, gave Mr. Pärt pride of place, but possibly with a ulterior motive.
I'll admit that my dragging in a comic-book detective-story writer's novel has a ulterior motive.
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They wouldn't (unless they were a competitor with an ulterior motive).
Ola, as it turns out, has a bit of an ulterior motive for her interest in her brother's Communion.
Our data may provide a starting point for an ulterior exhaustive analysis of the biopolymer-degrading fungal community.
The storyline is an irrelevance, however, despite the impassioned performances of an ulterior vocal cast and an emotive score.
"But there is an ulterior motive," said Luke Akehurst, a Labour councillor and former NEC member.
And a juror's gut may have an ulterior motive.
It felt like a good girlfriend helping me shop – albeit with an ulterior motive to sell me something.
It turns out that Edmund has an ulterior motive for being there — in fact, an ulterior motive for being with Katherine at all.
Peter J. Spiro, a law professor at Hofstra University, said the government might have an ulterior motive.
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