"be-er" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "be + -er",
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        {
          "word": "doer"
        }
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          "ref": "1990, Budge Wilson, “Be-ers and Doers”, in The leaving, and other stories",
          "text": "That meant, among other things, that he was going to be a fast-moving doer. And even when he was three or four, it wasn't hard for me to know that this wasn't going to be easy. Because Albert was a beer. Born that way.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, David Foster Wallace, “E UNIBUS PLURAM: television and U.S. fiction”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments",
          "text": "they were also sentient citizens of a community that was exchanging the old idea of itself as a nation of doers and be-ers for a new vision of the U.S.A. as an atomized mass of self-conscious watchers and appearers.",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "2010, Liz Miller, Mood Mapping: Plot Your Way to Emotional Health and Happiness",
          "text": "'Be-ers' or 'observers' assess a situation, see what's happening, and then take action if necessary",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "2011, Shakti Gawain, Laurel King, Living in the Light",
          "text": "The two types could be called the “doers” and the “be-ers.” They roughly correspond to “type A” and “type B” personalities",
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        "One whose self-identity is in passive roles, such as experiencing and observing."
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  "word": "be-er"
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  "etymology_text": "be + -er",
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          "ref": "1990, Budge Wilson, “Be-ers and Doers”, in The leaving, and other stories",
          "text": "That meant, among other things, that he was going to be a fast-moving doer. And even when he was three or four, it wasn't hard for me to know that this wasn't going to be easy. Because Albert was a beer. Born that way.",
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          "ref": "1997, David Foster Wallace, “E UNIBUS PLURAM: television and U.S. fiction”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments",
          "text": "they were also sentient citizens of a community that was exchanging the old idea of itself as a nation of doers and be-ers for a new vision of the U.S.A. as an atomized mass of self-conscious watchers and appearers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "2010, Liz Miller, Mood Mapping: Plot Your Way to Emotional Health and Happiness",
          "text": "'Be-ers' or 'observers' assess a situation, see what's happening, and then take action if necessary",
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        "One whose self-identity is in passive roles, such as experiencing and observing."
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  "word": "be-er"
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