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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

“Depleted people become more passive, which becomes bad for their decision-making,” says Roy Baumeister, a professor of psychology at the University of Queensland in Australia and author of “Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2021

Finally Baumeister supposes our collection not to have been made by learned editors, like Aristarchus and Zenodotus, but committed confusedly from memory to papyrus by some amateur. 

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