as in specialized
used by or intended for experts in a particular field of knowledge
although the owner's manual for the receiver was supposedly written for the average consumer, it's filled with technical language
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Recent Examples of technical
For the host, the whole premise had a psychological edge as well as a technical one.
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Lily Hautau, CNN Money, 3 May 2026
Rather than steering young people exclusively toward high-paying technical fields like computer science, a growing number are emphasizing the long-term value of skills often associated with a humanities or liberal arts education.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 3 May 2026
These developments come on the heels of a campaign last winter to get the Federal Judicial Center, the publishing body for the federal court system, to retract a roughly 90-page chapter devoted to climate science from the latest volume of its technical manual for judges.
—Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 2 May 2026
That’s not a technical question.
—Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
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Lily Hautau, CNN Money, 3 May 2026
Rather than steering young people exclusively toward high-paying technical fields like computer science, a growing number are emphasizing the long-term value of skills often associated with a humanities or liberal arts education.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 3 May 2026
These developments come on the heels of a campaign last winter to get the Federal Judicial Center, the publishing body for the federal court system, to retract a roughly 90-page chapter devoted to climate science from the latest volume of its technical manual for judges.
—Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 2 May 2026
That’s not a technical question.
—Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for technical
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That estimate, Giltner said, fails to take into account the long-term expenses associated with the standard upkeep of a ship and for specialized training required for ship crew.—
Jake Angelo,
Fortune,
3 May 2026
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Producing hydrogen on-site reduces the need for the specialized infrastructure required for long-distance transport and storage, which often limits the use of hydrogen fuel.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
3 May 2026
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Wulf struck out eight without a walk and limited Sycamore (16-4) to one hit in her three innings.—
Rick Armstrong,
Chicago Tribune,
2 May 2026
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Race, bad bosses and the fly-on-the-wall fun of watching office politics and micro-aggressions play out makes this workplace suspense novel a total page-turner (as well as a binge-worthy limited television series).—
Laura Zigman,
PEOPLE,
2 May 2026
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The next domino might be Alabama, where Governor Kay Ivey has called a special legislative session to redraw the state's maps less than three weeks before its primaries.—
Vann R. Newkirk II,
The Atlantic,
2 May 2026
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Beyond Alabama and Tennessee, legislators in Mississippi are planning to hold a special session to redraw the state's Supreme Court districts.—
Joe Walsh,
CBS News,
2 May 2026
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“Technical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/technical. Accessed 7 May. 2026.
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