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• s  (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous
  avid for adventure
  an avid ambition to succeed
  the esurient eyes of an avid curiosity
• s  marked by active interest and enthusiasm
  an avid sports fan

• For Mary-Rose Fisher, 51, an avid scrapbooker from Austin, Texas, the original appeal of the three-day Girl's Get-A-Way cruise, promoted as a tour for Christians who want to be .
• He's also an irresistible subject for the media, ever avid for gaudy and enigmatic political figures capable of adding a touch of color to a scene that is generally painted in the .
• Giannini, an avid equestrian, lives with her husband, a Web designer, in Florence.

• devouring
• esurient
• greedy
• zealous

News & Articles

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• YPSILANTI: EMU prof Fike plans 450-mile fundraising bike trek
  YPSILANTI — After 10 years of avid cycling, Eastern Michigan University professor John Fike will be taking his passion one step further: in two weeks he will embark on a nearly 450-mile bike trip across Michigan, his longest trip to date. And he's doing it for the sake of his students.
  June 16, 2013 - Ypsilanti Courier
• Pitts: Message in a bottle connects two families
  Last Father's Day, the family of the late David Hinkamp left notes for him in the Atlantic Ocean. The noted jeweler, golfer and avid fisherman had died on the first day of 2012.
  June 16, 2013 - The Fayetteville Observer
• Avid revamps the BB7 disc brake
  Avid has given the venerable BB7 disc brake a bit of a facelift, adding lighter stainless steel hardware and giving the brake a shiny black anodized finish. The updated BB7S uses the same stainless hardware introduced for the BB7 Road SL last fall. The BB7s also comes with Avid’s HS1 rotor. The construction and mechanics of this cable-actuated disc brake remain unchanged. The BB7S still has a ...
  June 12, 2013 - BikeRadar

Quotes

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• Pope Benedict XVI in Canada.com
  This humanity of the 21st century appears as sure and self-sufficient master of its own destiny, the avid proponent of uncontested triumphs,the Pope added.
• Jeffrey Combs in Washington Post
  There's nothing better than an avid fan,Combs said.
• Jon Stewart in BBC News
  As an avid watcher of the Oscars, I can't help but be a little disappointed with the choice,Stewart joked. "It appears to be another sad attempt to smoke out Billy Crystal."