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time travel

American  

noun

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


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OK, but you mentioned time travel and ancient supertech?

From Slate • Feb. 27, 2026

Make that four leads, since director and co-writer Matt Johnson and his composer-best friend Jay McCarrol each play themselves twice, thanks to archival footage presented in this zippy mockumentary as evidence of time travel.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026

This form of memory enables individuals to mentally revisit moments from their lives, often described as "mental time travel."

From Science Daily • Feb. 3, 2026

Please don’t hop in your time travel machine and spoil what happens next.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

More astonishing, perhaps, was the fact that time travel hadn’t broken my brain; that by some miracle, I had not yet devolved into a gibbering crazy person ranting on a street corner.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs