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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Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2025
Italian techno producer Deborah de Luca is off the HARD Summer 2025 lineup poster amid a public dispute regarding the font size of her name on the bill.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 3 June 2025
The film is a dead-on skewering of the high-on-their-own supply megalomania that now afflicts so many members of the techno oligarchy, who unfortunately also control the levers of the world.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 31 May 2025
The very mid-Nineties sound is Springsteen exploring new beats, like most of his peers; this was the era of Paul McCartney’s techno project The Fireman, Bowie’s drum-and-bass album, and the Stones sampling Biz Markie.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 20 June 2025
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Noun
In April 2020, McGraw was cast as 10-year-old Cady James in Blumhouse/Atomic Monster’s techno horror-comedy, M3GAN.
—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2025
Italian techno producer Deborah de Luca is off the HARD Summer 2025 lineup poster amid a public dispute regarding the font size of her name on the bill.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 3 June 2025
The film is a dead-on skewering of the high-on-their-own supply megalomania that now afflicts so many members of the techno oligarchy, who unfortunately also control the levers of the world.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 31 May 2025
The very mid-Nineties sound is Springsteen exploring new beats, like most of his peers; this was the era of Paul McCartney’s techno project The Fireman, Bowie’s drum-and-bass album, and the Stones sampling Biz Markie.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 20 June 2025
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“Techno.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/techno. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.
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