Examples of low-tech in a Sentence
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The contrast between this sophisticated machine and the very low-tech manner in which engineers travel along the pipe really delighted me.
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Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
In a clearing at the edge of the river, the miners had driven rows of cut saplings into the dirt—a low-tech defense against landing helicopters.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
Why would Christian Gheorghe, a refugee from communist Romania, travel to the US with nothing, and who would go on to create several highly successful enterprise software businesses, try and transform the famously low-tech Fashion business?
—Bruce Rogers, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
Europe is trying to tame a supply chain that’s fractured, low-tech, disorderly and rife for abuse by thousands of small farmers and surreptitious middlemen.
—Mumbi Gitau, Fortune Europe, 27 Feb. 2024
Some ornithologists are trying to resolve these conflicts with a low-tech approach: voting.
—Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2024
Iran's drive to enhance its naval capabilities aligns with the Houthis’ own military aspirations, providing the group with a crucial advantage in acquiring more low-tech, cost-effective support for their agile forces in the Strait of Bab al-Mandab.
—Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 29 Jan. 2024
The bulk of the camp remains decidedly low-tech (outdoor communal showers, cabins with no A/C), but management has imbued it with a hip, design-forward spirit that's proven perennially popular with both trendy Midwesterners and coastal types in search of an off-grid retreat.
—Dan Koday, Travel + Leisure, 26 Jan. 2024
By growing these crops instead of buying them in stores, low-tech urban growers can reduce their net carbon impact.
3) Keep urban gardens going long term
Cities are constantly changing, and community gardens can be vulnerable to development pressures.
—Benjamin Goldstein, The Conversation, 22 Jan. 2024
Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
In a clearing at the edge of the river, the miners had driven rows of cut saplings into the dirt—a low-tech defense against landing helicopters.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
Why would Christian Gheorghe, a refugee from communist Romania, travel to the US with nothing, and who would go on to create several highly successful enterprise software businesses, try and transform the famously low-tech Fashion business?
—Bruce Rogers, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
Europe is trying to tame a supply chain that’s fractured, low-tech, disorderly and rife for abuse by thousands of small farmers and surreptitious middlemen.
—Mumbi Gitau, Fortune Europe, 27 Feb. 2024
Some ornithologists are trying to resolve these conflicts with a low-tech approach: voting.
—Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2024
Iran's drive to enhance its naval capabilities aligns with the Houthis’ own military aspirations, providing the group with a crucial advantage in acquiring more low-tech, cost-effective support for their agile forces in the Strait of Bab al-Mandab.
—Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 29 Jan. 2024
The bulk of the camp remains decidedly low-tech (outdoor communal showers, cabins with no A/C), but management has imbued it with a hip, design-forward spirit that's proven perennially popular with both trendy Midwesterners and coastal types in search of an off-grid retreat.
—Dan Koday, Travel + Leisure, 26 Jan. 2024
By growing these crops instead of buying them in stores, low-tech urban growers can reduce their net carbon impact.
3) Keep urban gardens going long term
Cities are constantly changing, and community gardens can be vulnerable to development pressures.
—Benjamin Goldstein, The Conversation, 22 Jan. 2024
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“Low-tech.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/low-tech. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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