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  • The alumni of elite consulting firms gathered together to grill each other on editorial techniques.   (source)
    techniques = methods
  • What Jem called the Dewey Decimal System was school-wide by the end of my first year, so I had no chance to compare it with other teaching techniques.   (source)
  • The same technique, you will observe.   (source)
    technique = way of doing something
  • Pfitzner and Kawaguchi had got the whole technique worked out.   (source)
  • I've started to spot some flaws in the king's technique—" Now I was starting to feel like a jerk for lying to her.†   (source)
  • Ender was the last one out after practice, since he stayed to help some of the slower ones improve on technique.†   (source)
  • Having also seen your records, I understand that the difference between our approaches is one of philosophy, not technique.†   (source)
  • The computer science knowledge she had was outdated, and she had to learn the software techniques from scratch.†   (source)
  • Irena had given me an ointment and a fine-tooth comb, and instructed me on the best technique for brushing lice out of hair—making sure to go from the roots, and working quickly from front to back.†   (source)
  • He told everybody he was going to demonstrate a disarming technique: how to twist the enemy's blade with the flat of your own sword so that he had no choice but to drop his weapon.†   (source)
  • Intent to make some sense of the tragedy, she used the money to create a fund that would provide equipment and training to paramedics on a new procedure for dealing with respiratory or cardiac arrest, a technique that could have saved my father's life.†   (source)
  • And pay attention while Four demonstrates the correct technique for throwing them.†   (source)
  • I tried to do some clearing techniques on him Saturday afternoon but he was in too much pain.†   (source)
  • Keystones as a masonry technique for building stone archways had been one of the best-kept secrets of the early Masonic brotherhood.†   (source)
  • Volkheimer's technique, apparently, is this: he crouches beneath the buckled ceiling, panting, holding a piece of twisted rebar in one hand.†   (source)
  • Your money will be well protected by myself and by the bank, but Count Olaf's parenting techniques are his own business.†   (source)
  • The subtle and refined "hurl my body at the wall" technique had some flaws.†   (source)
  • In an article extolling his technique and his daring, People magazine had once declared that "if the Devil ever needed a defense, Bobby Lee Cook would take the case."†   (source)
  • Sergeant Maples became a masSnow Falling on Cedars ter with time and after the war taught kendo techniques to the army rangers at Fort Sheridan.†   (source)
  • It was a technique that he knew the other counselors used because he'd heard them when the windows were open and the air conditioners weren't rattling.†   (source)
  • The next line of the article was, "A new technique, utilizing a pizza-wheel-type cutter, makes quick work of a once arduous step.†   (source)
  • I guess I started getting the technique wired after that.†   (source)
  • After letting in half a dozen goals, most of them scored by Ginny, his technique became wilder and wilder, until he finally punched an oncoming Demelza Robins in the mouth.†   (source)
  • Other boys displayed kissing techniques in lobbies, risked "copping a feel" in coat rooms, defied the chaperones' quick censure of anything as vulgar as sticking a tongue in a girl's ear.†   (source)
  • With all the training over the past five days and fiddling with various weapons and techniques, her body ached.†   (source)
  • It reminded me of Grandpa Portman's photo of the girl "trapped" in a bottle, only whatever darkroom technique had been used wasn't nearly as fake-looking.†   (source)
  • While he smirked, Auntie Lindo demonstrated the proper technique, poking her chopstick into the orange spongy part: "You have to dig in here, get this out.†   (source)
  • One of my resistance techniques was to lie on the floor acting as though I didn't have the strength to stand.†   (source)
  • After that he still gave me advice on technique and strategy, and we still tossed the ball around the park, though we didn't do that as much.†   (source)
  • It seemed purely chance at first, an epidemic of good health that the less intelligent of the trainees were tempted to put down to their own improving techniques.†   (source)
  • They adopted many of the techniques that Mohandas Gandhi had used to liberate India from British rule.†   (source)
  • Daniel gave his approval of my technique and, noticing the drop of blood on my glasses, offered one last bit of advice: "The first rule of chicken killing is that if you ever feel anything on your lip, you don't want to lick it off.†   (source)
  • detailed what action to take if you inadvertently consumed plastic fruit (this happened more often than you would suppose—some plastic fruit was extremely realistic looking); how to perform the Heimlich maneuver on your elderly aunt Edith if she choked on a stringy piece of steak at an all-you-can-eat buffet; what to do if you were wearing a striped shirt and a swarm of locusts descended (run: locusts eat stripes); and, of course, how to administer everyone's favorite lifesaving technique: CPR.†   (source)
  • They learned body stances like the Black Crane and the Praying Mantis, as well as body-strengthening techniques.†   (source)
  • He hangs at the end of it like a spider, hesitates — isn't there a technique for doing this?†   (source)
  • This preserving technique had been employed on the ranch since time immemorial to ensure a supply of this nourishing and indispensable food throughout the winter.†   (source)
  • The technique works better than I expected: After three tries, the device jams beneath my nail and I bring it cleanly out.†   (source)
  • Chix nodded, mimicking Root's spewing technique.†   (source)
  • Wonderful technique, wonderful surface, but something a bit off with this one, don't you agree?†   (source)
  • It was from China that the techniques of rice cultivation spread throughout East Asia, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan.†   (source)
  • Beyond the telekinesis practice, most of our session was spent drilling technique in fighting—hand-to-hand combat, wrestling, mixed martial arts—followed by elements of composure—grace under pressure, mind control, how to spot fear in the eyes of an opponent and then know how best to expose it.†   (source)
  • I know many techniques you can practice that will give you strength and control, but you cannot gain the discipline the Riders had overnight.†   (source)
  • For a half hour he lectured us on oral hygiene, demonstrating the proper flossing and brushing techniques, then afterward he opened up shop in a small field tent and we all took turns going in for personal exams.†   (source)
  • But throwing Hatter's top hat required a technique not easily mastered, and every time the soldier tried employing the quick wrist-flick he'd seen Hatter use, the weapon only clattered to the floor.†   (source)
  • We all wanted to be like Rambo; we couldn't wait to implement his techniques.†   (source)
  • Kathy did flinch noticeably a few times, especially as we went over tick-removal techniques, but she kept any misgivings to herself.†   (source)
  • It's a coping technique I learned from my father when I was younger.†   (source)
  • Then one afternoon while Pumpkin was helping me with a technique for slurring notes together, Hatsumomo appeared in the corridor before us.†   (source)
  • I told her that surgical techniques had come a long way since the 1960s, and that I was certain I could, if not fix, then at least significantly improve her disfigurement.†   (source)
  • It uses 3-D graphics and drag-and-drop techniques to give users a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience.†   (source)
  • In acquiring the desired behavior through the "Ludovico Technique," as the aversion therapy is called in the novel, society has not only failed to correct Alex but has committed a far worse crime against him by taking away his free will, which for Burgess is the hallmark of the human being.†   (source)
  • Talent—A Technique—A Tone—A Rhythm—A Intonation—A Memory—B+ Grade—A Scholarship— Definitely.†   (source)
  • You have perfected that technique, I see, Nicholas.†   (source)
  • He had acquired the necessary techniques while articulating cadavers for medical students at Cook County Hospital.†   (source)
  • Their only technique for maintaining discipline was to shriek obscenities and hand out punishments to all alike.†   (source)
  • The same technique could be used for a running target—aiming at a spot ahead of the runner's path.†   (source)
  • Freud developed a technique which he called free association.†   (source)
  • And when scientists visited Gey's lab to learn his techniques, he usually sent them home with a vial or two of HeLa.†   (source)
  • I could not bear the lightest Marks or learn the simplest techniques.†   (source)
  • I truly believe that the wolves' hunting techniques will work flawlessly against them.†   (source)
  • He is focused on his technique—on where his feet are, where his hands are, the timing of his contact.†   (source)
  • I expect they tried some computer models, but even if they did, mathematical modeling techniques back then were dirt-simple.†   (source)
  • We'd sit in the good, bright fight of the solarium, critiquing technique and squinting over contact sheets.†   (source)
  • Zhang Ce's and Zhang Shu's arrival at the academy marked the beginning of our new focus on technique.†   (source)
  • So we're working on refining our management techniques so that we can control that information no matter where it is-on our hard disks or even inside the programmers' heads.†   (source)
  • 'Technique, that's all it is.†   (source)
  • Alba invented irresistible techniques of seduction, and Miguel created new and marvelous ways of making love to her.†   (source)
  • We were perfecting techniques in hydrology, learning tide levels and demographics of the ocean floor.†   (source)
  • Using this technique, doctors could save a lot of time and energy instead of poking around inside the skull.†   (source)
  • His daughter was studying at the Academy of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin, where for two centuries young ladies of society had learned the art and technique of being diligent and submissive wives.†   (source)
  • Dad used to throw us batting practice in one corner of the yard, and we dented the fence more than once from pitches that he threw to us or we threw to each other while working on our pitching technique.†   (source)
  • My mother's gown was blue and thanks to preservation techniques, the satin is still bright and lovely in its frame.†   (source)
  • The processes of his life are so low that they can be detected only with the most refined techniques.†   (source)
  • For the rest of class, practice this technique by finding out as much as you can about your new partner.†   (source)
  • Years of lessons on how to address an audience had drilled the proper technique into me, and I knew I was hitting every last point I was meant to as I delivered my announcement.†   (source)
  • I used to be afraid of new stitches and techniques, but now welcome each new challenge—pencil-sharp pleats, sequins, delicate lace.†   (source)
  • Yeah, the studio classes here are supposed to be great, so I felt like it was a good chance to work on my technique before portfolios are due for college apps.†   (source)
  • First prize goes to—and this is a first for this high school, ladies and gentlemen—Big Creek High School, represented by Homer Hadley Hickam, Jr., for A Study of Amateur Rocketry Techniques!†   (source)
  • The conversation meandered, circling back to technique and process.†   (source)
  • This is a reporter's technique: create an awkward silence and wait for your subject to fill it in with babble.†   (source)
  • And with a most clumsy technique, the audacity and crudeness of which I could hardly believe.†   (source)
  • "Nice technique," he said.†   (source)
  • Well, you see, we've been spoiled by modern camera technique.†   (source)
  • The no-risk bonus coupon below gives you guaranteed access to dozens of documented cases of life after death, everlasting life, previous-life experiences, posthumous life in outer space, transmigration of souls, and personalized resurrection through stream-of-consciousness computer techniques.†   (source)
  • And it wasn't bad, except we had to keep notes about Stein-beck's technique because we were going to be writing our own travel accounts— fictional or nonfictional — for the year's final composition.†   (source)
  • In fact, the last of them just went to Kimberly Howard, the music teacher, who will be taking a summer course in Marching Band Techniques, something that will give pleasure to so many people, and, it is hoped, encourage greater attendance at athletic events.†   (source)
  • Dorothy Chen, who had devised a kind of matador technique to give him his daily shots, was rewarded by a perfect set of teeth marks on her shoulder.†   (source)
  • His performance is not bad, marked less by technique than by his almost conversational phrasing.†   (source)
  • But the canning, freezing, and dehydrating techniques used to process food destroy most of its flavor.†   (source)
  • In June 2007, after two weeks with his family, Adam was off again, this time to Holland for training in specialized fighting techniques.†   (source)
  • She made love to him as though it were a technique of pacification, a means to some other end.†   (source)
  • He raised his voice and said, "An ongoing epidemic is not the time to try to field-test a new technique."†   (source)
  • Cutters mostly have learned the technique from their mothers or grandmothers, and often they don't use clean blades or can't stop the bleeding.†   (source)
  • She was a little rusty in her classical technique—three weeks wasn't much time to prepare for a high-level audition—but as she left the auditorium, she thought her dad would have been proud of her.†   (source)
  • Call me steady, call me plodding; say I adopt the style and technique that suits the patient and the particular situation and I'll consider that high praise.†   (source)
  • The techniques he had used to brand himself on the minds of the congregation were not new to her.†   (source)
  • Don't insult me and say wonderful—I was great—I am great—there was never—never, you hear me, sonny, a miracle man could match me—half the miracle techniques I invented—and then they fired me....†   (source)
  • I could see nothing except the people (or parts of them) nearest me: a group of gnomes arguing about mining techniques, and the skirts of two giantesses.†   (source)
  • One feature of this technique is that I disappear from the story, rather than being the ever-present eyes, ears, and travel guide for the reader, as is the case in many modern works of narrative nonfiction.†   (source)
  • She takes a quick look at the Big Nurse to see how the little flirting technique she is using is accepted, then looks back at the Acute.†   (source)
  • THANKS TO UNCLE AL'S superior marketing techniques, the big top is packed solid.†   (source)
  • Bridge: "Dude, they'll probably teach you breathing techniques and how to convert food into energy."†   (source)
  • So a new technique was devised.†   (source)
  • Peru would then have control of the dread disease, and the world would have proof that countrywide control was possible and would also have the techniques and low-cost tools for accomplishing it.†   (source)
  • I have been sent here to learn the newest medicines and techniques and to take them back with me to India.†   (source)
  • I knew I had to trot sometime, master whatever technique stopped one from bouncing.†   (source)
  • For parents—and parenting experts—who are obsessed with child-rearing technique, this may be sobering news.†   (source)
  • The chaplain had mastered, in a moment of divine intuition, the handy technique of protective rationalization, and he was exhilarated by his discovery.†   (source)
  • When the Communists issued their papers on techniques for combating ghosts, I looked for "Sit Dom Kuei."†   (source)
  • Cal worried—even as part of him thrilled at the idea—that he'd one day have to use the lifesaving techniques his dad had taught him in their aboveground pool to save Gage from drowning.†   (source)
  • That Alma had been taken by someone else in an on-and-off-and-on-again sort of way didn't distract from her participation in Litvinoff's reveries (which relied heavily on the technique of montage).†   (source)
  • Max sat down to take a breather, perusing some of the spines before him: Great Works of the Nineteenth Century, Art of the Baroque, Secret Techniques of the Old Masters, Dada and Surrealism, The Genius of Rembrandt, Hidden Symbols of Bernini, A Renaissance of Art and Man, Dutch Masters of the Seventeenth Century, The Postmodern Dilemma ..."David," Max hissed, overwhelmed by the thick books and unfamiliar names.†   (source)
  • Students sat jammed next to one another on long benches and, though I understood little Farsi, the teaching technique was simple enough to comprehend.†   (source)
  • She follows the huntress and patiently allows her to demonstrate the proper technique over and over again.†   (source)
  • I tried floating up to the ceiling in detachment, but the scene was so ugly that my usual technique didn't work.†   (source)
  • But on his best days, Reverend King takes his oration to an even higher level than Kennedy by adding the techniques learned from countless Sunday mornings speaking from the pulpit: thunder and whisper as his voice rises and falls, the changing pace as the reverend speeds up and slows down to make the listener hang on his every word, the stretching or shortening of syllables to accentuate a point.†   (source)
  • The technique, the same as still practiced by Dr. Boylston, was to make a small incision, then with a quill scoop the "pus from the ripe pustules" of a smallpox patient into the open cut.†   (source)
  • With him, the words are gentler, but the technique is the same.†   (source)
  • The receptionist was magnificently breasted, a testament to the salon's figure sculpting techniques.†   (source)
  • They were proficient in the techniques of war.†   (source)
  • After a half hour, Antonio lured her away by throwing around words like technique and shading.†   (source)
  • What a technique that guy had.†   (source)
  • He and Janjungpa had discussed the need to provide specialized mountaineering skills to Balti porters, who were often ignorant of the most basic mountain rescue techniques, and Janjungpa had dwelt at length on the Balti porters' high rate of injuries and low salaries.†   (source)
  • When the Hand-to-Hand Centurion screams at me for poor technique, I barely hear him, instead considering what will happen to Hel and me.†   (source)
  • On the train taking us into the Midland area, Preston demonstrated the research technique he has been using for more than twenty years.†   (source)
  • Sand was used to help slow down the sled at the end of the ride to keep it from crashing, a technique based on the principle of friction.†   (source)
  • The technique of identifying likenesses, the technique of praise, that of encomium and that of amplification.†   (source)
  • Even my technique had been different; no one who had known me at college would have recognized the speech.†   (source)
  • Such an analysis could only be made through the use of sophisticated computer techniques and a thorough knowledge of Swiss banking practices.†   (source)
  • After them the Lhazarene, the one the other boys called Red Lamb, though as yet that one was all ferocity and no technique.†   (source)
  • A common fire-fighting technique of the time was to surround a blaze with engines and use a flood of water to stop it from spreading.†   (source)
  • The police had become more powerful, their methods more ruthless, their techniques more sophisticated.†   (source)
  • Fang was up high, doing steep circling moves, banking, practicing the techniques he'd learned from the hawks out west.†   (source)
  • The walls also looked to be a bit rougher than the others, as if they hadn't quite perfected their digging techniques when this tunnel was gouged out of the earth.†   (source)
  • He could clam up and hasten the inevitable smashing of bones or electrocution or a myriad of other techniques perfected in these deserts.†   (source)
  • I began to learn techniques of conspiracy and to appreciate Prof's feeling that revolution could be an art.†   (source)
  • He uses the techniques of the Fascists.†   (source)
  • "On the possible connection between the tool-making techniques of Solutrean Stone Age culture in southern Spain and certain pre-Clovis spear points found in Cactus Hill, Virginia," she blurted.†   (source)
  • Many policemen—though not all—also know that the good cop's interrogation technique is by far a superior way to get results.†   (source)
  • I've also taken great pains to protect the tactics, techniques, and procedures used by the teams as they wage a daily battle against terrorists and insurgents around the world.†   (source)
  • At that time, anyway, the police were still used to the Bertillon system, and slow to use the new techniques.†   (source)
  • It's a deal with a mission-a worthy, public-spirited mission-to manage the nationalized properties of the various People's States of South America, to teach their workers our modern techniques of production, to help the underprivileged who've never had a chance, to—" He broke off abruptly, though she had merely sat looking at him without shifting her glance.†   (source)
  • That's the thing beyond the technique and the discipline, when the sharpening and the gnawing stop, and something, as they say, "comes to you.†   (source)
  • Sand was used to help slow down the sled at the end of the ride to keep it from crashing, a technique based on the principle of friction.†   (source)
  • I was going to have to fall back on that old technique, the only technique that we can rely on in the battle with parents: nag and whinge.†   (source)
  • Lorenzo tried using his anger-management techniques.†   (source)
  • I was glancing through Just 17 and it listed kissing techniques.†   (source)
  • Orcs were not loyal creatures, but under the enchantment of a mage, torturing techniques weren't usually much good.†   (source)
  • I remember when the older girls spoke so endlessly of bleaching and ironing techniques you'd think their hair was something to be thrown in a white load of wash.†   (source)
  • Inducing claustrophobic panic by cutting off his air supply is also a simple but effective disciplinary technique.†   (source)
  • I wish I could say that I listen, but I spend most of the time thinking about how to tweak my angel food cake recipe and proper kickboxing techniques.†   (source)
  • I know the technique, how to look blank and as if you are listening when really you are trying to fly away from your body.†   (source)
  • She must've noted his appraisal, because she said, "I helped revise the manual on interrogation techniques, Puller, so spare yourself the embarrassment of trying to read me."†   (source)
  • And how could anyone experiment on the unconscious, which, by definition, seemed to defy laboratory techniques of testing?†   (source)
  • I wasn't employing a technique so much as my own instant live burial.†   (source)
  • My father continued with his technique of trying to solve one problem by creating another.†   (source)
  • Uncle Si still uses the same technique in our reeds today.†   (source)
  • Using a technique censors often use, they zoomed in on one detail of the novel, the so-called bad words in Spanish, and they used that excuse.†   (source)
  • They experimented with different techniques.†   (source)
  • Using the same technique, I amassed a stack of order forms to show and prove to managers of Walmart stores across four states that other stores were buying our duck calls.†   (source)
  • If we were using Glatun techniques we'd have burned through three times as much fuel as we've used for this amount of metal.†   (source)
  • —It was interesting for a period, though, wasn't it, Sayed said, when you had the Schwinns made in Chicago, the Raleighs made in England, the Italian bikes, the French...For a time you had real international competition, where you were choosing between very different products with very different heritages, sensibilities, manufacturing techniques... Alan remembered.†   (source)
  • In the mornings, immediately following breakfast, she learned techniques for replacing her own identity with an assumed onetradecraft, they called it.†   (source)
  • But, in less than one growing season, they found that to feed their growing population they needed tractors, combines, fertilizers and time-tested farming techniques.†   (source)
  • We had learned about counterinsurgency techniques in military science classes in our four years at the Institute.†   (source)
  • They discussed the techniques of radio for a time.†   (source)
  • Besides all this, Charley is a coward, so deep-seated a coward that he has developed a technique for concealing it.†   (source)
  • But he went carefully after that, told Karl much less, used more of the hocus-pocus of espionage technique.†   (source)
  • Techniques such as these decreased the caribou's natural advantages, of course, but it was usually still the weakest or at any rate the least able deer which fell victim to the pursuing wolves.†   (source)
  • The stores had to comply, and this was so successful in Chicago that the techniques spread across the country.†   (source)
  • I got a different technique.†   (source)
  • Some of the monks doubted the orthodoxy of this prayer technique, but the machine had been built and was operated by Yama-Dharma, fallen, of the Celestial City; and, it was told, he had ages ago built the mighty thunder chariot of Lord Shiva: that engine that fled across the heavens belching gouts of fire in its wake.†   (source)
  • I challenge the engineers in this audience to devise new techniques for developing cheap, clean, and plentiful energy, and as a byproduct, to control floods.†   (source)
  • But for poets hobbling on the clumsy crutches of their intricate technique, the rule was, "Make 'em snore.†   (source)
  • They had argued that such events as economic depressions, the results of armament races, the stability of social groups, political elections, and so on could be analysed by the correct mathematical techniques.†   (source)
  • It was arduous work and neither of them knew the technique.†   (source)
  • ALICE (Exhibits distress) Ah— MORE Alice, that means nothing; that's just technique ....Well, I suppose "now" means now.†   (source)
  • He followed his own technique.†   (source)
  • These have the quality of belonging to a studied technique.†   (source)
  • They found that on the whole they laughed even harder if they tried hard not to, so they came to favor that technique.†   (source)
  • For democracy means much more than popular government and majority rule, much more than a system of political techniques to flatter or deceive powerful blocs of voters.†   (source)
  • In response to bitter criticism and loud laughter, Commissioner Crabbe gave an exclusive press interview in which he revealed that Police Laboratories had discovered a new investigation technique which would break the D'Courtney Case within 24 hours.†   (source)
  • But Podsnap's Technique had immensely accelerated the process of ripening.   (source)
    technique = method
  • The Russian technique for infecting water supplies was particularly ingenious.   (source)
    technique = way of doing something
  • … continued with some account of the technique for preserving the excised ovary alive and actively developing;   (source)
    technique = method
  • Could the individual Epsilon embryo be made a revert, by a suitable technique, to the normality of dogs and cows?   (source)
    technique = way of doing something
  • Whereas (his voice became confidential and eager), if they could discover a technique for shortening the period of maturation what a triumph, what a benefaction to Society!   (source)
    technique = method
  • Oh, excuse me, Mr. Expert on Proper Warm-up Techniques!†   (source)
  • The sand-and-chopstick method did not require the delicate, light-handed technique of the brush.†   (source)
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