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Recent Examples of techie
While those moves were lauded by the most vocal techies who backed Trump’s candidacy, over the weekend the president took it a step too far in their view.
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Ari Levy,mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 4 Mar. 2025
With Vivek Ramaswamy standing down, Musk appears set to solely lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), his initiative to take a scalpel (with help from techie and business world allies) to federal government agencies.
—Cuneyt Dil, Axios, 23 Jan. 2025
Although the movement here might appear - to the external observer at least - to represent something of an enclave of techies in and of itself, the efforts being made here are steeped in altruistic openness and a system meritocracy founded in usefulness, functionality and freedom of use.
—Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
Though reared in techie heaven, Chu opted to study at USC, where some of his professors were confounded by his pursuit of the cinema of music and dance.
—Peter Bart, Deadline, 16 Jan. 2025
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Ari Levy,mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 4 Mar. 2025
With Vivek Ramaswamy standing down, Musk appears set to solely lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), his initiative to take a scalpel (with help from techie and business world allies) to federal government agencies.
—Cuneyt Dil, Axios, 23 Jan. 2025
Although the movement here might appear - to the external observer at least - to represent something of an enclave of techies in and of itself, the efforts being made here are steeped in altruistic openness and a system meritocracy founded in usefulness, functionality and freedom of use.
—Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
Though reared in techie heaven, Chu opted to study at USC, where some of his professors were confounded by his pursuit of the cinema of music and dance.
—Peter Bart, Deadline, 16 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for techie
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Advertisement In the seemingly inevitable future where artificial intelligence has flooded our workforce with emotionally engaged and intelligent AI agents, our overpromising technocrats offer us a consolation: AI will solve loneliness.—
Silvia Park,
TIME,
10 Mar. 2025
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Such problems would be tough enough to handle if the sanctions technocrats were still in charge.—
Henry Farrell,
Foreign Affairs,
23 Dec. 2024
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While most people just want to start shooting, the geeks also want to dig into the minutia and spend hours debating the merits of one camera versus the other.—
Jakob Schiller,
Outside Online,
1 Apr. 2025
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Redford heads a team of eccentric misfits that includes a former CIA Agent (Sidney Poitier), a conspiracy theorist (Dan Aykroyd), an awkward geek (River Phoenix), and a blind man (David Strathairn) who get in over their heads when tasked with finding a device capable of breaking any code.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 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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What started back in the 1980s as a small gathering of gearheads has grown into a premier West Coast car show, drawing pristine hot rods, retro cruisers, and muscle machines from across the country—and even as far as Australia.—
Cliff Lewis,
Oc Register,
4 Apr. 2025
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Forza Horizon 5 There was a time when the Forza series was the exact sort of stuffy racing-sim that appealed to gearheads and nobody else.—
Luke Winkie,
Vulture,
1 Apr. 2025
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Security as a Foundation, Not an Afterthought In the wake of North Korean hackers compromising Bybit’s systems, security has become the primary concern for crypto exchanges and users alike.—
Sean Lee,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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Musk and his hacker minions have blown into departments, demanding access to highly sensitive data in pursuit of finding waste, fraud, and abuse—often making cuts and promoting the reductions before fully understanding what was going on.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
2 Apr. 2025
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“Techie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/techie. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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