sputnik
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With his trademark delivery - unhurried and calm - he informed viewers of the first sputnik in space, and delivered the communiqués of the Communist Party.
From BBC • Oct. 30, 2021
This guy's not as imposing as a sputnik, but just as many bulbs.
From Salon • Mar. 14, 2021
All languages borrow words from other languages — Americans may recognize agitprop, sputnik, babushka or cosmonaut.
From Washington Post • Apr. 25, 2017
Shortly before my eighth birthday, the A-bombing of Japan and then the end of the war became our era’s sputnik in schools, though I was too young to notice.
From Slate • Jun. 8, 2012
"There was sputnik, you know," Ross interrupted sourly.
From The Common Man by Schelling, George Luther
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