: technologically simple or unsophisticated
low-tech industries

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There can be consumer goods, maybe low-tech items. CBS News, 17 May 2026 Amenities and experiences Wellness at Terrestre is deliberately low-tech but highly impactful. Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 May 2026 The book’s superpower is its voice; Herr’s intensely articulate prose stretches to accommodate the crazy experiences and mind-states created when a high-tech corporate military wages war on a low-tech nation. Time, 12 May 2026 With systems still down, Dana (Katherine LaNasa) calls in an old friend with experience running a low-tech ER – but not before one of Javadi’s (Shabana Azeez) patient slips through the cracks. Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 29 Apr. 2026 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 26 May. 2026.

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