technobabble
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of technobabble
First recorded in 1980–85; patterned on psychobabble
Example Sentences
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The series’ celebrated technobabble is just a kind of reformulated abracadabra; human characters get the hang of alien gear faster than you could look up how to reset your car’s clock in the owner’s manual.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2021
It’s a compelling logline, even if the show itself was too bogged down in the usual Marvel trappings of action and sci-fi technobabble to be satisfying introspective.
From Slate • Apr. 30, 2021
In science fiction-tinged horror, it’s fairly common to hand-wave cellphones away as a rescue option because of “some form of electrical interference” or other technobabble.
From The Verge • Aug. 16, 2018
But hooks’s magnificent exploration and celebration of love, first published 18 years ago, will be far more useful to us, in our alienated digital future, than the 10,000 books of technobabble published this year.
From The Guardian • May 30, 2018
Adding to the mystery, bitcoins hinge on tongue-twisting technobabble even most Wall Street pundits can't grasp.
From US News • Jun. 10, 2016
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