The phrase "argument has gained" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the increasing acceptance or support of a particular argument or viewpoint.
Example: "In recent years, the argument has gained significant traction among scholars and policymakers alike."
Alternatives: "argument has received" or "argument has garnered".
Still, the argument has gained traction.
Recently a more radical version of this argument has gained credence: Maybe there never were any such weapons.
Just four years after the standards were first released, this argument has gained traction on both sides of the aisle.
Platonists have offered a few different arguments as refutations of fictionalism, but only one of them, known as the indispensability argument, has gained any real currency.
That argument has gained some traction on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers are advancing a bill that, if enacted, would exempt foreign subsidiaries from some derivatives rules.
It seems that the moral argument has gained insufficient traction, and that in the absence of new frames continuing population and economic growth will cause more damage.
This argument had gained enough traction by May, 2014, that an executive at Shell, facing questions from investors, felt compelled to write a twenty-page letter dismissing it.
Strategists in both parties said the argument had gained new traction with the attempted Christmas Day bombing of an airliner, the missed deadline for closing the prison at Guant?mo Bay, Cuba, and the collapse of the plan for a trial in New York of the self-described mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Recent polls suggest that their arguments have gained traction.
Given the economy's persistent weakness and an unemployment rate hovering above 9.5 percent, those arguments have gained traction.
In recent weeks such arguments have gained credibility worldwide, threatening the very core of the biofuel movement.
