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time travel

American  

noun

  1. hypothetical transport through time into the past or the future.


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By the time travel giant Priceline bought OpenTable in 2014, it served more than 30,000 restaurants and was valued at $2.6 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

They sit at the heart of how we interpret modern physics and quietly shape everything from how we understand general relativity to how we imagine time travel, multiverses and our origins.

From Science Daily Jun. 8, 2026

Paul Monash, the producer of “Slaughterhouse-Five,” which was based on Kurt Vonnegut’s acclaimed novel about World War II and time travel, directed the screen test.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 23, 2026

Maybe I’m betraying my hopeless rationalism, but if I learned of the reality of time travel and “aerial spirits,” I’d be a little more preoccupied by it than Iris seems to be.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 5, 2026

Ridge was looking at him like he’d grown a second head, but if time travel was possible, who was to say there weren’t books that could burn people’s eyeballs?

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

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