Plural of technique
The word 'techniques' is correct and usable in written English. You can use it when referring to specific methods, methods of doing something, or processes. For example: 'The chef demonstrated several cooking techniques during the cooking class.'.
The techniques inflicted on the detainees included hooding suspects, putting them into stress positions, sleep deprivation, food and water deprivation and the use of white noise.
A proposed experiment to test a way to deliver particles into the upper atmosphere using a balloon and a one kilometre-long pipe was cancelled in 2012 after it was reported that two of the scientists involved had submitted patent applications that were similar to the techniques being proposed.
In mediation practices going back hundreds of years, they have perfected conflict resolution techniques to negotiate rivalries and blood feuds.
Sinason insists she doesn't use recovered-memory techniques.
"So when you strip everything down, every single player needs to go away and have a look at themselves, have a look at their techniques, have a look at the way they bowl, and you start rebuilding again, and that real hunger and desire has to come from within to do it".
The only training he had had in resuscitation techniques was in his school days during swimming lessons, Pearson told the inquest.
This course aims to provide a framework of the basic techniques for the craft of writing a novel.
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