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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George Packer, The Atlantic, 24 Nov. 2025
What’s clear is that crypto has become much bigger than the retail traders and techno futurists who are committed to HODLing through thick and thin.
—Emily Nicolle, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2025
The net effect is to make ambitious techno-fixes such as geoengineering increasingly attractive.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2025
In the series created by Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Moten plays Maximus, a member of the militaristic techno-religious order known as the Brotherhood of Steel, which navigates a post-nuclear wasteland with the mission of collecting, preserving, and controlling advanced technology.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 20 Nov. 2025
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Noun
In Silicon Valley, techno-monarchists such as Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin denounce democracy itself and dream of a ruling class of entrepreneurs.
—George Packer, The Atlantic, 24 Nov. 2025
What’s clear is that crypto has become much bigger than the retail traders and techno futurists who are committed to HODLing through thick and thin.
—Emily Nicolle, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2025
The net effect is to make ambitious techno-fixes such as geoengineering increasingly attractive.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2025
In the series created by Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Moten plays Maximus, a member of the militaristic techno-religious order known as the Brotherhood of Steel, which navigates a post-nuclear wasteland with the mission of collecting, preserving, and controlling advanced technology.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 20 Nov. 2025
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“Techno.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/techno. Accessed 2 Dec. 2025.
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