avidity

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

Although avidity measures the strength of binding, just as affinity does, the avidity is not simply the sum of the affinities of the antibodies in a multimeric structure.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Hubert Bazin with his copper mask and boyish avidity and his breath like crushed insects.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr