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, 23 Apr. 2026 When his techno beats kick in during the most fraught sequences, however, the effect is dynamite. —Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026 Mr Cobra evades most classification from there, blending free jazz, musique concrète, ’00s pop, house, industrial techno, and air horns, interlaced with dialogue snipped from Korean folk operas and experimental films. —Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 17 Apr. 2026 Expect trance and techno day and night — but a pause for totality. —Jamie Carter, Space.com, 12 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for techno
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Noun
What social structures enabled Musk and his peers to acquire so much power, such that their messianic techno-reactionary futurism is a real threat rather than just fodder for b-rate science fiction? —Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026 When his techno beats kick in during the most fraught sequences, however, the effect is dynamite. —Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026 Mr Cobra evades most classification from there, blending free jazz, musique concrète, ’00s pop, house, industrial techno, and air horns, interlaced with dialogue snipped from Korean folk operas and experimental films. —Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 17 Apr. 2026 Expect trance and techno day and night — but a pause for totality. —Jamie Carter, Space.com, 12 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for techno
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“Techno.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/dictionary/techno. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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