Niemeyer

American

[nee-mahy-er] / ˈni maɪ ər /

noun

Oscar, 1907–2012, Brazilian architect.

Niemeyer British

/ ˈniːˌmaɪə /

noun

Oscar. 1907–2012, Brazilian architect. His work includes many buildings in Brasília, esp the president's palace (1959) and the cathedral (1964)

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Over the years I’ve grown accustomed to comments about how “wild” the spaceship-like buildings designed by Oscar Niemeyer must have looked, how “alienating” the car-centric city must have been.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026

"HETDEX observes everything in a patch of sky, but only a tiny amount of that data is related to the galaxies that are bright enough for the project to use," added Lujan Niemeyer.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 8, 2026

“The Permian Basin in particular, it’s no longer an experiment,” said Bruce Niemeyer, president of shale and tight at Chevron.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026

Niemeyer also questioned whether the federal court had the power to reverse the state court rulings, emphasizing the legitimacy of the order the North Carolina Supreme Court made last week.

From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2025

See Lives by Smeaton, 1572; McCrie, 1812; Niemeyer, 1824; Laing, 1847, and Brandes, 1863.

From A Brief Handbook of English Authors by Oscar Fay Adams

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