How to Use technically in a Sentence

technically

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• Yes, these are technically slippers, but the platform sole gives them the look of a stylish clog.
  — Nykia Spradley, Glamour, 19 Mar. 2024
• There isn’t even, technically, a name for the rivalry ... but does there need to be?
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 11 June 2023
• The new treatments are technically not a cure in the same way a bone marrow transplant would be.
  — Dr. Darien Sutton-Ramsey, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2023
• The two-door 500e technically seats four, but rear legroom is a rumor more than a feature.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 10 Apr. 2024
• While Day of the Dead is technically one day, Mercado notes that the name of the holiday is a bit of a misnomer.
  — Samantha Leal, refinery29.com, 1 Nov. 2023
• The Red Sox keep building out their outfield bleachers and the area around the ballpark — which is technically part of it now.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2024
• For the technically minded, there is research to be done.
  — Yiren Lu, New York Times, 31 May 2023
• There is a lot of money in golf, but the PGA Tour is technically a nonprofit.
  — WSJ, 6 June 2023
• And while technically they were allowed to pen spec scripts, the consensus is that very few did.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2023
• Fans may be surprised to know that there technically already is one spin-off of the show called Pearson.
  — Maggie Horton, Country Living, 19 Aug. 2023
• There's been no word on the premiere date of the next season of Too Hot to Handle because the show technically hasn’t been renewed yet.
  — Temi Adebowale, Men's Health, 29 July 2023
• Fleet managers, as they are called, are technically their own bosses, but John spends his days at the beck and call of the company’s app.
  — Amy Martyn, WIRED, 21 Dec. 2023
• This is technically called an intercalary day, one that is added to the calendar to sync it up.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2024
• The area between the two border walls is technically on U.S. soil but considered a no man’s land.
  — Simon Romero, New York Times, 12 May 2023
• While the line is technically loungewear, each swoon-worthy piece can be dressed up for brunch, the office, or even a casual date night.
  — Gabriela Izquierdo, Southern Living, 19 Mar. 2024
• And yet, as vote counting finished over the weekend, would-be lawmakers from a faction technically barred from the polls were in the lead.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2024
• Her jump into local politics—the alder gig was technically part time and came with a tiny stipend—still felt like an odd fit.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• Truth be told, the organic food retailer technically isn’t that far off from say, a Sumac store in New York City.
  — Kayla Greaves, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2023
• Sierra Stevens, the 17-year-old girl featured in the final episode of the docuseries was technically never missing at all.
  — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 13 May 2023
• The committee saw a top prospect transferring to his third school in three years, with a man who wasn’t technically his father.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2023
• And technically, this isn't Miller's first time showing off her baby bump.
  — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 15 Sep. 2023
• And even if the formula is technically upgraded, the new version never works or feels the same.
  — Katie Intner, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 July 2023
• So the dozens of campers are in a legal limbo: Their encampments aren’t technically allowed to remain, but they can’t be told to leave.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 13 May 2023
• This is technically true in that paying the money into Truth and Courage is not the same as paying Cruz directly.
  — Ariel Shapiro, The Verge, 9 Apr. 2024
• New England will technically be the home team on Nov. 12 in Frankfurt, but the game is, in reality, a neutral site.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 12 May 2023
• That’s technically true, because the Hilltoppers rank third in pass attempts per game over the past two seasons.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 14 Sep. 2023
• What that means, technically: Halving refers to an event that happens about every four years.
  — Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2024
• German mining was the most technically advanced on earth in the 16th century; in the 17th century, the Rhineland led the world in brass production.
  — Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
• Wyatt, Overboard was technically your film debut as a baby on the golf course.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2023
• The crown prince and princess are not technically linked to the current government of Albania, a republic since 1946.
  — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 17 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024