avidity

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As the dance’s “Odd Man Out,” John Harnage, impressive all season, embodied his choreography’s feisty resistance with avidity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025

The researchers further refined their TIL selection process by applying a secondary algorithmic filter to screen for only those tumor-reactive T-cells with "high avidity" -- that is, those that bind strongly to tumor antigens.

From Science Daily • May 7, 2024

“The Yanomami are paying the price with their health and their very lives for our society’s relentless avidity for gold,” said Navarro.

From Seattle Times • May 15, 2023

The avidity depends on the number of identical binding sites on the antigen being detected, as well as other physical and chemical factors.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

He shook his head now, admiring with genuine avidity the spread of fruit before him; strawberries arranged in turned-up cedar flats, heavy and pungent, deeply crimson and firm, a regal abundance of them.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson