How to Use samizdat in a Sentence

samizdat

noun
  • The samizdat of today will need to modernize.
    — Jennifer Lutz, New York Daily News, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Last Child received dazzling reviews and was passed around public schools as samizdat.
    — Conor Williams, The Atlantic, 26 Apr. 2018
  • In response, samizdat (self-publishing) emerged.
    — Jennifer Lutz, New York Daily News, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Deprived of her platform, Wang was relieved to see her readers turning her essays into samizdat.
    — Han Zhang, The New Yorker, 3 June 2020
  • This level of frankness was nearly revolutionary at the time, and so the book was treasured as tweener samizdat.
    — Kyle Smith, wsj.com, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The book was published in the West and circulated in samizdat form in the Soviet Union.
    — Sophia Kishkovsky, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2017
  • Though publicly unavailable, the study is circulating among academics as a sort of email attachment samizdat.
    — Sopan Deb and Max Fisher, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2017
  • In the pre-internet era, Soviet dissidents passed around samizdat.
    — Joel Mathis, The Week, 28 May 2021
  • The authorities reacted to this self-publishing, or samizdat, with arrests.
    — David Satter, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2021
  • The Biden administration greeted the suggestion that his op-ed was being distributed like samizdat with an eye-roll.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 5 Feb. 2021
  • With the bulk of fashion and culture writing blurring into prefab content molded for social-media shares, the duo’s effort reads like sartorial samizdat.
    — Nathan Taylor Pemberton, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The first is from a Sorokin still writing in the mode of underground artist, one who got his start pecking away at the absurdities of a political system from its edges, writing in samizdat or for émigré journals abroad.
    — Jennifer Wilson, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
  • Their samizdat was propagated by WhatsApp, which constantly alerted them to the latest developments.
    — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2023
  • As there was samizdat literature (underground literature) in the Soviet Union, so there is in China.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The academy, one of the most traditionalist German art schools, was then an unlikely citadel of experimentation, and Western art books were passed around like samizdat.
    — Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
  • One option was to consult the Qatar Alcohol Map, a list of drinking venues that had been devised by a concerned American and was spreading like samizdat as fans poured in to this tiny, mostly alcohol-free, nation.
    — Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Émigré scholars and nativist autodidacts met secretly in rural museums and published samizdat treatises filled with runic letters and outlandish ethnological hypotheses.
    — Jacob Mikanowski, Harper's magazine, 21 July 2019
  • During an earlier iteration of Russian authoritarianism, in the Soviet Union, samizdat played this role.
    — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2022
  • While readers may have been searching out samizdat videos from China to try to make sense of the phenomenon, American reporters were treating their audiences to many, many, many articles about anti-Chinese or anti-Asian sentiments.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 24 Feb. 2020

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