Sample sentences for TECHNIQUE

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Definition

a way of doing something

She developed a new surgical technique that shortens recovery time.

technique = way of doing something

One technique I use for dealing with anger is to wait ten seconds before responding.

technique = way of doing something

In the late 1980s, Apple was a pioneer of an accounting technique called the "Double Irish with a Dutch sandwich," which reduced taxes by routing profits through various countries.

technique = way of doing something

So a new technique was devised.
Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five
I had been helping her with electrical stimulation, adjusting her, and administering other chiropractic techniques.
Howard E. Wasdin & Stephen Templin -- I Am a Seal Team Six Warrior
What a lavishment of effort and technique, no refinement spared—the equivalent, Edgar thinks, of medieval church architecture.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
I don't think any of us could have managed those survival techniques alone; I know I couldn't—we needed each other.
Piper Kerman -- Orange Is the New Black
They adopted many of the techniques that Mohandas Gandhi had used to liberate India from British rule.
Christopher Paul Curtis -- The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963
He's going to take you somewhere and work on you, show you some of his techniques.
David Baldacci -- Zero Day
It'll take you years to lesirn what to do-not because it's a matter of technique, but precisely because it isn't.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
You'll need to practice technique, though.
Sabaa Tahir -- An Ember in the Ashes
Thus, a high-energy sophon can also use the same technique to show letters, numbers, or images on their retina....
Cixin Liu -- The Three-Body Problem
We'd sit in the good, bright fight of the solarium, critiquing technique and squinting over contact sheets.
Sarah Dessen -- Dreamland
The stores had to comply, and this was so successful in Chicago that the techniques spread across the country.
John Howard Griffin -- Black Like Me
Chix nodded, mimicking Root's spewing technique.
Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl
It was arduous work and neither of them knew the technique.
Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
Everyone craned in their seats to witness his technique.
Madeleine Roux -- Asylum
Forthirty years, the ANC had functioned clandestinely in South Africa; those habits and techniques were deeply ingrained.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
At that time, anyway, the police were still used to the Bertillon system, and slow to use the new techniques.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
Keeping rat tissues alive in vitro, after Harrison and the technique improved by Carrel.
Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March

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