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time travel

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noun

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


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This reinterpretation of Einstein–Rosen bridges offers no shortcuts across galaxies, no time travel and no science-fiction wormholes or hyperspace.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

The series begins in standard time travel fashion.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

OK, but you mentioned time travel and ancient supertech?

From Slate • Feb. 27, 2026

But time travel is an imperfect science, and the technician overseeing the process is delirious from a virulent new strain of flu, so Kivrin is accidentally dropped into 1348, the year of the Black Death.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 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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