often attributive
: electronic dance music that features a fast beat and synthesized sounds usually without vocals or a conventional popular song structure
: technical : technological
technocracy
Examples of techno in a Sentence
Noun
The club plays only techno.
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Samantha Allen, Them., 2 Sep. 2025
Copperman shifted the sound beneath that pre-chorus into a techno-like bass part that telegraphs a new stage in the song’s journey.
—Tom Roland, Billboard, 28 Aug. 2025
Incongruously accompanied by a pumping techno beat (like a tennis match from Challengers), opening screen text outlines some of the responsibilities of an Italian president.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025
Tech firms have long demonstrated a willingness to do what is best for them, not the greater good—and now the AI boom has offered a way to conscript the American project to advance their techno-utopian visions, not the other way around.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2025
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Noun
But most exciting to me personally is the fact that after providing the addictive techno score to Challengers, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are collabing with Luca once again.
—Samantha Allen, Them., 2 Sep. 2025
Copperman shifted the sound beneath that pre-chorus into a techno-like bass part that telegraphs a new stage in the song’s journey.
—Tom Roland, Billboard, 28 Aug. 2025
Incongruously accompanied by a pumping techno beat (like a tennis match from Challengers), opening screen text outlines some of the responsibilities of an Italian president.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025
Tech firms have long demonstrated a willingness to do what is best for them, not the greater good—and now the AI boom has offered a way to conscript the American project to advance their techno-utopian visions, not the other way around.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2025
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“Techno.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/techno. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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