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time travel

American  

noun

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


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Together, they ignite a passionate romance that traverses decades and endures brutal separations, wars and time travel.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

OK, but you mentioned time travel and ancient supertech?

From Slate • Feb. 27, 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

Now imagine you can time travel backward to Bloomington, Indiana—basically any time in the last 130 or so years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

Unlike us, Mayhem used pieced-together equipment that often didn’t allow them to time travel with the precision that we did, and, of course, they didn’t have Chaos Cuffs.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin