Baer

[ bair ]

/ bɛər /

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noun

Karl Ernst von

[kahrl urnst von, fuhn], /kɑrl ɜrnst vɒn, fən/, 1792–1876, Estonian zoologist and pioneer embryologist.

Max, 1909–59, U.S. boxer: world heavyweight champion 1934.

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How to use Baer in a sentence

“If there is a new complaint and if the judge accepts it, we are still at the beginning of a years-long process,” Baer says.
Facebook's Surprise Antitrust Victory Could Inspire Congress to Overhaul the Rules Entirely|Billy Perrigo|June 30, 2021|Time
Capitol Factory’s Baer believes Texas investors think about loss prevention more than their peers in Silicon Valley.
6 VCs talk the future of Austin’s exploding startup ecosystem|Mary Ann Azevedo|April 9, 2021|TechCrunch
Baer, the Arizona artist, said she had heard that Clinton reads a book a day.
Inside the World of Hillary Superfans|David Freedlander|April 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It has all the complexity of a really superb abstract painting, by Malevich, say, or maybe Jo Baer.
Art at the Scrim-age Line|Blake Gopnik|July 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST

The president was sitting at his desk; Don Baer and Mark Gearan, his communications chief, were standing across.
The Funniest WHCD Speech Bill Clinton Never Delivered|Mark Katz|April 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Baer began to make notes on his napkin, determined to dedicate an episode of the new season's show to this issue.
Why Are These Rapes Still Unsolved?|Linda Fairstein|September 28, 2010|DAILY BEAST
“No, Peter [Orzag] did not put this idea forward,” says his spokesman Kenneth Baer.
Are These Breasts Deductible?|Sandra McElwaine|July 30, 2009|DAILY BEAST
Mr. Petherick says, that the Baer tribe carry a different kind of iron missile from the Neam-Nams.
The Evolution of Culture|Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers
This, at any rate, was von Baer's opinion, who assigns to Pander the glory of the discovery of the germ-layers.
Form and Function|E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
It was to one of the German transcendentalists that von Baer owed the impulse to study development.
Form and Function|E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
One important consequence for morphology results from von Baer's laws of differentiation within the type.
Form and Function|E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
Baer at once brings us face to face with the solution of the problem attempted in the Meckel-Serres law.
Form and Function|E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell