torture technique
Frequency: 7.09.2 per million words
a specific skill or way of torturing someone
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- Waterboarding was a notorious torture technique used in various conflicts.
- Human rights activists tirelessly campaign against every torture technique.
- The report detailed several brutal torture techniques employed by the regime.
- Sleep deprivation is recognized as a psychological torture technique.
- International law strictly prohibits the use of any torture technique.
- He described a particularly cruel torture technique he had endured.
- New torture techniques are sometimes developed to circumvent legal restrictions.
- The interrogators refined a coercive torture technique over time.
- Is there any circumstance under which a torture technique could be justified?
- The government denied ever authorizing such a torture technique.