tractive effort

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noun

the force exerted by a locomotive or other powered vehicle on its driving wheels.

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As part of that effort, Said received weapons training for months, sources told The Daily Beast.
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The effort to sterilize his image first began when Epstein hired Los Angeles-based spin doctors Sitrick Co.
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The U.S. military just unveiled a new effort to get Iraqis ready to battle ISIS.
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Where the U.S. once sought to train several divisions worth, the latest effort is for just 3,000 troops.
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Police Superintendent Michael Harrison said the decline was a result of an effort to decrease gang violence.
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The remaining one struggled for another half-minute, and flared up in one last, desperate effort.
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He had seen the act committed, he felt sure but had made no effort whatever to stop the thief.
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I shall therefore, in my effort to prove the Bible fallible, quote almost wholly from Christian critics.
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To make the effort of articulation a vital impulse in response to a mental concept,—this is the object sought.
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Make a personal appeal to your men and Godley's to make a supreme effort to hold their ground.
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