: technologically simple or unsophisticated
low-tech industries

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While fan favorites range from low-tech percussive foot rollers to hi-tech heat and vibration chambers, all tools share a goal: making your feet feel better. Annie Blackman, Allure, 20 Feb. 2025 Because of the depth and challenging logistics involved, Taylor decided to go low-tech by dropping a camera onto a possible wreck target rather than deploying human divers. Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Feb. 2025 My guess surely can’t be far off, because Roman then gets pinged on his ancient Palm Pilot, which, like the ghost guns, is too low-tech to be traced. Sara Netzley, EW.com, 4 Feb. 2025 That system, whose deployment and improvements have been partly funded by the United States, was designed to work against low-tech rocket and artillery attacks fired from relatively short range. The Editors, National Review, 30 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for low-tech

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First Known Use

1967, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of low-tech was in 1967

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“Low-tech.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/low-tech. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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