How to Use avidity in a Sentence
avidity
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It’s near a golf course—a plus given Jake's avidity for golf.
—Andy Benoit, SI.com, 21 June 2018
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The avidity that Ronan brings to the part is shattering.
—Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2020
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To judge by the children's degree of avidity, spinning gourds must have been the Angry Birds of the 19th century.
—Mark Rozzo, Town & Country, 26 Nov. 2012
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Rory’s mouth was shiny with grease and Eustace had his face down almost on the plate, the pair savaging at their food with the shameless avidity of children.
—Colin Barrett, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
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The extraordinary avidity of the people kept up the delusion; and the higher the price of Indian and Mississippi stock, the more billets de banque were issued to keep pace with it.
—Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 1 Sep. 2020
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To the role of Bonnie Parker, Dunaway brought the combination of avidity, glamour, and sheer presence that would become her trademarks.
—Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2019
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The avidity with which consumers snatched up even poor-quality CD reissues was a revelation: proof that catalogs could be cash cows.
—New York Times, 11 June 2019
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During the weeks before the opening, the international press gossips about the contestants with the same avidity that film critics devote to the Academy Awards.
—Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 8 June 2017
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What Public Enemy was able to do with their third album was create a heavy project that channeled upstanding anger and incandescent avidity.
—Mark Elibert, Billboard, 23 Feb. 2018
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In fact, these molecules aren’t terribly choosy: Each BMP dimer may stick to several different pairs of receptor subunits with varying degrees of avidity.
—Quanta Magazine, 16 Sep. 2021
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Yet this same avidity also means that if public opinion shifts significantly towards republicanism, vote-hungry politicians will be the first to jump on that tumbrel.
—Catherine Mayer, CNN, 14 Apr. 2021
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Mutations may also increase the avidity of the spike protein for the receptor or stabilize the spike, increasing infectivity.
—William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
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Liberal sentiment was no hindrance to his avidity for sensation.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 26 July 2021
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Plenty of professional athletes harbor deep avidity for vino.
—Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 20 Feb. 2018
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But instead of vindicating Mr. Rockefeller’s avidity for banking abroad, those figures underlined Chase’s lagging performance at home.
—Jonathan Kandell, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2017
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All the characteristic Winogrand elements are to be found: energy, surprise, voraciousness, avidity, dauntlessness, wit, alertness, muscularity, gusto, slyness, insolence, stunned wonder (that especially).
—Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2019
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