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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Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
The nerds have moved out of the garage and into their techno feudalist era.
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 26 May 2026
For his part, Amato was a techno sophisticate masquerading as a party monster.
—Walden Green, Pitchfork, 23 May 2026
Portofiro and the baroque universe surrounding it—communists on-world, techno-fascists offplanet, and all manner of augmentoids and spooks in the immaterial planes between—can make for a dizzying read.
—Alex James Kane, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
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Noun
The techno-optimism of the 2000s has evolved in increasingly dystopian directions.
—Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
The nerds have moved out of the garage and into their techno feudalist era.
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 26 May 2026
For his part, Amato was a techno sophisticate masquerading as a party monster.
—Walden Green, Pitchfork, 23 May 2026
Portofiro and the baroque universe surrounding it—communists on-world, techno-fascists offplanet, and all manner of augmentoids and spooks in the immaterial planes between—can make for a dizzying read.
—Alex James Kane, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
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“Techno.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/techno. Accessed 31 May. 2026.
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