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Painful effort (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

travail

'painful effort' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

This is all the clue.

(Other definitions for travail that I've seen before include "Painful or laborious effort, like childbirth" , "Labour, toil" , "Painful labour" , "painful exercise" , "Old word for pangs of childbirth" .)

I've seen this clue in The New York Times.
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