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[av-id] / ˈæv ɪd /


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Avid, founded in 1987, is based in Burlington, Mass., and has since established itself as a pioneer in digital audio and video editing software.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

Mr. Auslin is a historian at the Hoover Institution and author of “National Treasure,” a history of the Declaration of Independence to be published in May by Simon & Schuster’s Avid Reader Press.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026

Avid readers, they "max out" their borrowing, taking 20 books each under their individual library cards, the most they are allowed.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2025

The deal they’d signed with Simon & Schuster’s Avid Reader Press in 2018 was valued at roughly $1 million, according to people familiar with the deal.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

Avid inventors tend to swamp physics departments and science magazines with blueprints for incredible machines—machines that eternally generate power without any source of energy.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife




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