low-tech

adjective

ˈlō-ˈtek

: technologically simple or unsophisticated

low-tech industries

Examples of low-tech in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Gillespie County, Texas — For the last year, Mark Cook has been preaching a kind of low-tech, election-doubting gospel in political battlegrounds across the country. —

Major Garrett, CBS News, 1 Oct. 2024 The pagers had been used by Hezbollah to communicate after the group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, encouraged members to switch to low-tech devices to prevent more of them from being assassinated. —

Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 20 Sep. 2024 Most of the strategies proven to work are simple and low-tech, like tutoring and summer school, according to the CRPE report. —

Anna North, Vox, 19 Sep. 2024 Hezbollah operatives use low-tech devices such as pagers and walkie-talkies to avoid interceptions of their communications by Israeli intelligence. —

Greg McKenna, Fortune Asia, 18 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for low-tech

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