How to Use samizdat in a Sentence

samizdat

noun

• The book was published in the West and circulated in samizdat form in the Soviet Union.
  — Sophia Kishkovsky, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2017
• The video was grainy, balky and awkwardly framed — which only added to the samizdat, you-are-there electricity of the broadcast.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 23 June 2016
• Last Child received dazzling reviews and was passed around public schools as samizdat.
  — Conor Williams, The Atlantic, 26 Apr. 2018
• No matter: readers resorted to a practice that, in Soviet times, would be called samizdat (self-publishing) and copied the work by hand.
  — Gary Saul Morson, The New York Review of Books, 25 Mar. 2021
• Deprived of her platform, Wang was relieved to see her readers turning her essays into samizdat.
  — Han Zhang, The New Yorker, 3 June 2020
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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 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
• The authorities reacted to this self-publishing, or samizdat, with arrests.
  — David Satter, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2021
• 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
• Their samizdat was propagated by WhatsApp, which constantly alerted them to the latest developments.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2023
• During an earlier iteration of Russian authoritarianism, in the Soviet Union, samizdat played this role.
  — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024