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Recent Examples of techie
Riffing off the plot of The Holiday, the book swaps Clover, a small-town Ohio farmer fresh off a broken engagement with her high-school sweetheart, and Bee, a San Francisco techie who can’t live up to her wealthy parents’ impossible expectations, into each other’s holiday habitats.
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Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2024
The recruitment success enjoyed by Tako and its peers speaks to a growing remote work fatigue, particularly in San Francisco, where housing conditions are often cramped and where a high concentration of young, ambitious techies are eager to comingle.
—Salvador Rodriguez, CNBC, 6 Dec. 2024
For techies, there’s a suite of on-sale Apple products, like the Airpods Pro 2 or Apple Watch SE.
—Jessica Kasparian, SELF, 2 Dec. 2024
Art enthusiasts, techies and history nerds can rediscover the past through illuminated photo panels and 3-D models, with the help of an interactive touch-screen tablet.
—Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 14 Nov. 2024
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Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2024
The recruitment success enjoyed by Tako and its peers speaks to a growing remote work fatigue, particularly in San Francisco, where housing conditions are often cramped and where a high concentration of young, ambitious techies are eager to comingle.
—Salvador Rodriguez, CNBC, 6 Dec. 2024
For techies, there’s a suite of on-sale Apple products, like the Airpods Pro 2 or Apple Watch SE.
—Jessica Kasparian, SELF, 2 Dec. 2024
Art enthusiasts, techies and history nerds can rediscover the past through illuminated photo panels and 3-D models, with the help of an interactive touch-screen tablet.
—Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 14 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for techie
Noun
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Blinken’s final tour Blinken, on the first stop of what will likely be his final trip as the top U.S. diplomat, met acting president Choi Sang-mok, a technocrat in office just over a week, as well as Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul, who is not under threat of impeachment.—
Alena Botros,
Fortune Asia,
6 Jan. 2025
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Urban planners are not be confused with technocrats.—
Seydina Fall,
Fortune,
2 Dec. 2024
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For some design geeks, however, the heart and soul of L.A.’s architecture resides not just in its museums and office towers but also in its exalted, often otherworldly houses.—
Jessica Gelt,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Jan. 2025
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As the craft beer market evolved, so too did Firestone Walker, not just with nerdy beer geeks seeking limited releases, but also with a broader beer loving crowd.—
Don Tse,
Forbes,
1 Jan. 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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While Steep and Cheap is usually a go-to for bargain-hunting gearheads, that’s especially true now.—
Drew Zieff,
Outside Online,
20 Dec. 2024
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For Harper’s, Kushner chronicles his adolescent gearhead flowering, as well as their time spent with the National Hot Rod Association—traveling from race to race, speaking with drivers, and basking in the fumes of cameraderie and funny cars.—
Peter Rubin,
Longreads,
18 Nov. 2024
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The takeaway from the technology perspective is that passkeys are all but impossible, although nothing is 100% secure, for hackers to guess or intercept.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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By exploiting the weakness in the identity product during the SolarWinds attack, the Russian hackers were able to swiftly vacuum up emails from victim networks.—
Renee Dudley,
ProPublica,
17 Jan. 2025
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“Techie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/techie. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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