techno-thriller: M-W's Word of the Day

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The Word of the Day for October 6 is:

techno-thriller \TEK-noh-thrill-er\ noun
: a work of fiction having a high degree of intrigue, adventure, or suspense and a plot that relies on modern technology

Example sentence:
The techno-thriller's protagonist, equipped with an arsenal of futuristic weapons, must prevent a terrorist group's strike on the nation's capital.

Did you know?
"Techno-thriller" owes a lot to technology. Not only do fictional techno-thrillers include a lot of technology in their plots, the word itself includes the combining form "techno-," which derives from the word "technology." The artistic and literary genre is relatively new and so is the word that describes it; the first documented use of "techno-thriller" dates from 1986.

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