traction
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I wasn’t finding that kind of traction under the all-season tires.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
IonQ, Quantinuum, and other notable names in the quantum sector have reported earnings, which broadly showed that traction continues to grow.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
Though it hadn’t received much attention at the time, it began to gain some traction on social media right after Olin settled down in Europe, frequently appearing in short-form videos across Instagram.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Her story gained traction a second time after a U.K. newspaper detailed how the woman whose son’s heart Herres had received had offered to pay for the drug so Herres could keep taking it.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
But it apparently served just as well to keep Rufus’s leg in traction.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
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In addition to Patagonia products, the store will stock DaKine tractions pads and leashes, Ocean Minded sandals, Nixon watches, Smith sunglasses, and a large selection of surfboard fins.
From Time Magazine Archive
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She often worked in the front seat of theii Chevrolet, parked away from the dis tractions of home.
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When he died in 1915 he left a fortune of over $30,000,000 largely made out of banking, sugar, rubber, public utilities, tractions.
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The stress that suffices in the simpler problem gives rise to no vertical force, and it is clear that in addition to longitudinal tensions and pressures there must be tangential tractions on the cross-sections.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various
Oblique tractions can always be resolved, by the vector law, into normal and tangential tractions.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various
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