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Recent Examples of techie
Available gift amounts: $25 – $150 Please the techie in your life with an e-gift card to Best Buy.
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StyleCaster, 8 Apr. 2025
Both, along with Terry’s unstable but techie smart ex-husband (Guy Pearce, getting all twitchy) are still grieving Becca (also played by Kruger), who died of cancer.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2025
Some techies who supported Trump in the campaign have taken to social media to defend their positions.
—Ari Levy, CNBC, 5 Apr. 2025
Such dismissiveness has become less common (perhaps because techies still believe that tech entrepreneurs are special).
—Jaron Lanier, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2025
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StyleCaster, 8 Apr. 2025
Both, along with Terry’s unstable but techie smart ex-husband (Guy Pearce, getting all twitchy) are still grieving Becca (also played by Kruger), who died of cancer.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2025
Some techies who supported Trump in the campaign have taken to social media to defend their positions.
—Ari Levy, CNBC, 5 Apr. 2025
Such dismissiveness has become less common (perhaps because techies still believe that tech entrepreneurs are special).
—Jaron Lanier, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for techie
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In three years, murders fell by around half in New York, other violent crimes also declined, and Bratton became the face of the new police chief: a technocrat who brought quants to law enforcement.—
Paul Solotaroff,
Rolling Stone,
11 May 2025
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At those meetings, Egypt will likely propose forming a committee of Palestinian technocrats and community leaders, all unaffiliated with Hamas, who could run Gaza after the war, according to two Arab diplomats, a senior Western official and Senator Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland.—
Patrick Kingsley,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2025
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Owner David Rubenstein needs to get rid of Elias (maybe Cal Ripken Jr. would agree to the job) and get baseball people instead of computer geeks to run the team.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
22 May 2025
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Jon Cherry/Getty Images For years, crypto was viewed by many as a weird and fringe investment, hyped up by a bunch of math geeks and used widely by all kinds of unsavory characters, from drug dealers to hackers.—
Rafael Nam,
NPR,
19 May 2025
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After thwarting an attack against the celebrated technophile, Franklin picks up a mysterious ring that Burrell has dropped and soon discovers the ring allows its possessor to travel 57 seconds into the past.—
Carole Horst,
Variety,
22 May 2022
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People use the terms gearhead, geek, technocrat, and technophile interchangeably.—
Kim Komando,
USA TODAY,
14 Apr. 2022
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And while Bicester Heritage acts as a quiet and calm but highly productive group of car-adjacent businesses during the week, the Scramble sees thousands of gearheads descend.—
Alistair Charlton,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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There are gearheads who go and people with Instagram accounts devoted to their cars, but there are also people there like Kevin Kuzma, who lost his deceased mom’s 1957 Chevrolet 210.—
Marah Eakin,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Apr. 2025
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How hackers exploit these routers Many recent infections stem from devices with remote administration exposed to the internet.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
26 May 2025
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Perhaps most notable about the agencies’ accusations is that the hackers targeted 10,000 security cameras in countries bordering Ukraine, including at border crossings, military facilities, and train stations.—
Andy Greenberg,
Wired News,
24 May 2025
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“Techie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/techie. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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