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sputnik

[spoot-nik, spuht-, spoot-nyik] / ˈspʊt nɪk, ˈspʌt-, ˈsput njɪk /


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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

Our amazing response to sputnik made America richer and stronger.

From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2012

"Is it one of the space platforms or a sputnik?"

From The Secret of the Ninth Planet by Donald Allen Wollheim


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