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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Sheldon Pearce, New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2025
The idea [that came first] was [a convoy] of trucks in Morocco, first in the desert, then making a trip — a physical trip — with techno music.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 16 Dec. 2025
OpenAI’s investors and executives might agree with the techno-optimistic spin of the model spec’s inspirational line, but a lot of other people wouldn’t.
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The creature was named after the techno-funk duo Chromeo, one of O’Connor’s favorite bands.
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Noun
There’s also the Palestinian techno artist Sama’ Abdulhadi, a trailblazer for her scene, who broke through in Beirut and has since turned mixing into a kind of activism.
—Sheldon Pearce, New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2025
The idea [that came first] was [a convoy] of trucks in Morocco, first in the desert, then making a trip — a physical trip — with techno music.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 16 Dec. 2025
OpenAI’s investors and executives might agree with the techno-optimistic spin of the model spec’s inspirational line, but a lot of other people wouldn’t.
—Vauhini Vara, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2025
The creature was named after the techno-funk duo Chromeo, one of O’Connor’s favorite bands.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 8 Dec. 2025
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“Techno.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/techno. Accessed 8 Jan. 2026.
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