avid
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He is an avid reporter who focuses his coverage on labor issues and investigative journalism.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026
This idea that well-compensated employees become avid consumers who, in a virtuous cycle, support profitable companies, guided U.S. industry for much of the 20th century.
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
Lewis Slavin, a photographer and avid birdwatcher from Yeovil, said he gets "a buzzy feeling" when he sees them.
From BBC • May 8, 2026
Post retirement, I have returned to avid road bicycling and those years pedaling a heavy steel single-speed bike with 20 pounds of papers in all kinds of weather has really paid off.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
I have found many Readers more interested in what I wear than in what I think, more avid to know how I do it than in what I do.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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