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bandura

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[ban-door-uh] / bænˈdʊər ə /

noun

  1. a Ukrainian stringed instrument of the lute family.


Etymology

Origin of bandura

< Ukrainian bandúra, probably < Polish < Italian < Greek pandoûra. See bandore

Example Sentences

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I draw on the work from social psychologist Albert Bandura.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2023

Dr. Bandura received a bachelor’s degree in 1949, then moved to the United States for graduate school.

From Washington Post • Jul. 30, 2021

“The content of most textbooks is perishable,” Dr. Bandura once observed, according to a biography on his website, “but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 30, 2021

To understand the present, Bandura told Davis and her teammates, they must understand the past.

From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2018

Bandura in hand, alternately puffing at his pipe and singing, a brandy- glass upon his head, the gray-beard began the national dance amid loud shouts from the merry-makers.

From Stories by Foreign Authors: Russian by Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich

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