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- noun Plural form of
traction .
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Examples
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• End the influence of money in politics which is often the reason such common sense reforms fail to get political tractions from politicians who rely on big money contributions to get elected.
Miles Mogulescu: The Krugman/Stiglitz Army Is on the March (and It's Too Late for Michael Bloomberg to Stop It) Miles Mogulescu 2011
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Strange how when you lived somewhere, you tended to take for granted the area's most interesting and easily available at tractions.
Dolls Paul de Denus 2010
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DEMETRIOS (ph): ... but if the party is going to move forward and to gain tractions with people, then the conversation is going to have to be more down to earth.
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It's no coincidence that tractions systems -- trolleys, light rail, what have you -- are creeping back into existence now.
Puppy Beat jeffrey 2007
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These P2P networks appear to be trying to build a virtual gateway in which they will shave some $ from these tractions.
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Six months will simply allow the debate to lose tractions … or gain, perhaps, if the current warrantless spying issue heats up.
Think Progress » Conservative Judge Argues Bush Adminstration Lacks Credibility 2005
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SANDOS: Well, as you showed in the clip before, many Hispanics are Spanish speaking only, and so they don't understand the tractions when they're handed to them in English.
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They blew out gusts of wind, and the chill drafts made her shiver; water coalesced on the slick wingleaf surfaces and caused the bird to gain weight and lose tractions.
Dragon on a Pedestal Anthony, Piers 1983
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The air is exhausted with each respiration of the patient and from 50 to 200 tractions are made at each sitting.
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Second would be our Fine Chemistry services business for gaining a lot of tractions especially for next year with a couple of really nice opportunities for which we have contracts and orders in place.
unknown title 2011
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