: technologically simple or unsophisticated
low-tech industries

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Those are examples of the way that warehouse clubs — notoriously low-tech and low-frills — have flipped the script in the digital age. Melissa Repko, CNBC, 20 Sep. 2025 Poland and allies had to scramble fighter jets to shoot down the 19 low-tech drones, illustrating the imbalance that European powers face, having to use expensive equipment to battle Moscow’s low-cost antagonization. Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 12 Sep. 2025 Instead of allowing a disability exception, colleges with tech bans should provide peer tutors, teaching assistants, and writing centers to help students who require extra assistance—low-tech strategies that decades of pedagogical research show to be effective in making education more accessible. Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2025 This is a train ride for daydreaming, drawing, reading, playing cards, or any other low-tech pursuit. Alesandra Dubin, AFAR Media, 25 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for low-tech

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First Known Use

1967, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of low-tech was in 1967

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“Low-tech.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/low-tech. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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