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time travel

American  

noun

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


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This had been accomplished with time travel and cloning technology.

From Slate Sep. 22, 2026

It’s not time travel so much as it is tapping into a second sight.

From Salon Sep. 7, 2026

This is like time travel, but you’re traveling back to your childhood,’” she said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 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

So these classical laws would have ruled out any possibility of time travel.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

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