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Baumeister

American  
[bou-mahy-ster] / ˈbaʊˌmaɪ stər /

noun

  1. Willi 1889–1955, German painter.


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On a city bridge, Simone Baumeister photographed an orb-weaver spider silhouetted against traffic lights.

From BBC Oct. 14, 2025

"It's a multiple-day, city-wide water fight," said Jared Baumeister, a lawyer from New York, who flew into Bangkok this week to join the festivities.

From Reuters Apr. 13, 2023

It affects our behavior, and unaddressed it can result in reduced capacity for problem-solving, as the social psychologist Roy Baumeister and a team of fellow researchers demonstrated in a series of studies.

From Washington Post Sep. 27, 2022

“Decision fatigue tends to accumulate over the day,” Baumeister notes.

From Seattle Times Sep. 23, 2021

That the Pisistratidæ organised Homeric recitations at Athens is certain enough, and Baumeister suspects, in xiv., xxiii., xxx., xxxi., xxxii., the hand of Onomacritus, the forger of Oracles, that strange accomplice of the Pisistratidæ. 

From The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Lang, Andrew

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