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
It’s hard to remember, even for those who lived through it, what an enormous shock sputnik was.
From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2012
They got reports from the observatories about another sputnik being launched by the Russians.
From The Delegate from Venus by Irving Novick
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