effort = "to try to obtain by effort; to obtain by effort"

[Alice Faber]

On 9/9/10 5:40 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>>
>> CNN says they're "efforting word from the imam," and that "We haven't been
>> able to effort (some other thing)."
>
> Wonder if it's a CNN-ism. Before going on a CNN panel a few months
> ago, the producer told me about "other panelists I’m efforting."

It's been two or three years since I've listened to Mike and Mike in the
morning (ESPN radio), thanks to XM. But they used to always say things
like "we're efforting that story".

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