"Wavoid" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1999 December 13, Danny Hakim, “Catching the Wave”, in SmartMoney:",
          "text": "He created WAVX 101, an online \"course\" for fledgling Wavoids that is quite literally the book on Wave.",
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          "ref": "2000 February 28, Danny Hakim, “Who Wants to Marry a Wavoid Multimillionaire?”, in SmartMoney:",
          "text": "The Wavoids and Raging Bull's WAVX board are at the frontier of a still-evolving manifestation of modern investing life: the financial message board.",
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          "ref": "2003 November 17, Noam Scheiber, “Organization Man: Joe Trippi Reinvents Campaigning”, in The New Republic:",
          "text": "Joe Trippi--username \"random1\"--was also a Wavoid.",
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          "ref": "2004 June 14, Scott Kirsner, “After 16 years of struggle, Wave awaits its big break”, in The Boston Globe:",
          "text": "Through the boom and bust, when Wave's stock sold for $50 a share and when it sold for less than a buck, when the company was delisted from the Nasdaq in 1997 and then reinstated in 1999, the Wavoids have been predicting that Wave will be bigger than Intel, AOL, or Yahoo -- and searching for clues that Wave's software is about to become the gold standard of trusted computing, an indispensable part of the 150 million PCs shipped yearly.",
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          "ref": "2004 August 14, Danny Hakim, “For a Reformed Wavoid, The Play's the Thing”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "At the height of the technology bubble, Wave Systems attracted a devoted throng of investors from across the country who called themselves Wavoids.",
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          "ref": "2007 March 4, Danny Hakim, “That Ship Will Come In, Right?”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "The Wavoids say they believe that Wave’s moment has finally come — of course, they have always believed that Wave’s moment has finally come.",
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        "A person who believes (often fervently) that Wave Systems Corp. will be a financial success."
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        "(finance, informal) A person who believes (often fervently) that Wave Systems Corp. will be a financial success."
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          "ref": "1999 December 13, Danny Hakim, “Catching the Wave”, in SmartMoney:",
          "text": "He created WAVX 101, an online \"course\" for fledgling Wavoids that is quite literally the book on Wave.",
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          "ref": "2000 February 28, Danny Hakim, “Who Wants to Marry a Wavoid Multimillionaire?”, in SmartMoney:",
          "text": "The Wavoids and Raging Bull's WAVX board are at the frontier of a still-evolving manifestation of modern investing life: the financial message board.",
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        {
          "ref": "2003 November 17, Noam Scheiber, “Organization Man: Joe Trippi Reinvents Campaigning”, in The New Republic:",
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        },
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          "ref": "2004 June 14, Scott Kirsner, “After 16 years of struggle, Wave awaits its big break”, in The Boston Globe:",
          "text": "Through the boom and bust, when Wave's stock sold for $50 a share and when it sold for less than a buck, when the company was delisted from the Nasdaq in 1997 and then reinstated in 1999, the Wavoids have been predicting that Wave will be bigger than Intel, AOL, or Yahoo -- and searching for clues that Wave's software is about to become the gold standard of trusted computing, an indispensable part of the 150 million PCs shipped yearly.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2004 August 14, Danny Hakim, “For a Reformed Wavoid, The Play's the Thing”, in The New York Times:",
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          "text": "The Wavoids say they believe that Wave’s moment has finally come — of course, they have always believed that Wave’s moment has finally come.",
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