techniques

plural of technique

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Recent Examples of techniques As a result, the company has developed innovative techniques around drill motors, bit designs — the company uses a polycrystalline diamond compact drill bit — and drilling fluids. Pippa Stevens, CNBC, 5 Sep. 2026 It’s based on the alleged hiring of Scarpa by the FBI during the civil-rights era, when he was twice brought to Mississippi to use certain interrogation techniques that were considered off the table for agents. Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026 Depending on the session, drivers learn braking techniques, vehicle control and high-speed maneuvers with guidance from experienced instructors. Chris Teague, AJC.com, 4 Sep. 2026 Instead of collecting more personal data, organizations should use techniques such as edge processing, anonymization and federated analytics to detect risks while minimizing data exposure. Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2026 The documentary reality of Ryan’s life leans on observational verité techniques, with the camera often placed at an unobtrusive distance and following their freewheeling motions. Marshall Shaffer, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2026 Chef Francesco Ferretti is master of capturing flavor vis a vis delicate cooking techniques and fresh ingredients. Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Sep. 2026 Correspondent Conor Knighton looks at the history of adobe, and how ancient adobe materials are being merged with 3-D printing techniques. David Morgan, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026 The feature will combine a range of contemporary filmmaking and animation techniques, including live-action footage, motion capture, rotoscoping, 2D and 3D animation and water simulation. Alex Ritman, Variety, 28 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for techniques
Noun
  • German officials said police findings, intelligence information and the methods used in the attack led Berlin to conclude Russia was responsible.
    Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2026
  • And Lukas’ father is at pains to cope with the situation without resorting to archaic methods of patriarchal control.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Both approaches can leave parents feeling even more taxed and out of control.
    Juli Fraga, CNBC, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Manouzi sees her Dearborn clients as especially entrepreneurial, with a willingness to test new, innovative approaches that might boost sales, or, for a restaurant business, bring diners into a space.
    Lyndsay C. Green, Freep.com, 30 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Budgets and bureaucracy can move at a glacial pace, and internal politics often determine the weapons and strategies a country pursues in surprising ways.
    Jeffrey Lewis, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2026
  • The best strategies come from understanding business objectives, listening carefully and aligning people before making decisions.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Thematic methodologies have been one of the downfalls of contemporary museology (and art history) generally, a crisis of collective memory and the historical imagination overall.
    George Baker, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
  • This collaboration brings together Chiyoda’s engineering strength in high-pressure facility design with Sage’s subsurface methodologies.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 26 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Gizelle, who has been stirring the pot and playing producer for everyone on the trip, keeps up her conniving ways by sitting down all the RHOP ladies except for Candiace during their Potomac retrospective moment at the party.
    Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 7 Sep. 2026
  • But in some ways, all those previous games were a drumroll leading up to this one — Super Bowl LXI, in a futuristic $5-billion stadium, absent the lingering restrictions of a pandemic.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026

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“Techniques.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/techniques. Accessed 8 Sep. 2026.

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