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wormholes

  • plural
    of wormhole.
    wormhole
    noun
    a hole made by a burrowing or gnawing worm, as in timber, nuts, etc.

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Yet there is no observational evidence for macroscopic wormholes, nor any compelling theoretical reason to expect them within Einstein’s theory.

From Science Daily ● May 22, 2026

Ross: Other dimensions, everyone was fine with the wormholes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 25, 2025

Within a couple of kilometers I too was divebombing mountain switchbacks and collapsing country roads into blurry wormholes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

The writer went down similar online wormholes himself on sites like 4Chan and Reddit in order to see the world through Jamie's eyes.

From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2025

There were clusters of freckles on her forearms and wrists, an entire Milky Way spreading across her forehead, even a few sputtering quasars flung into the wormholes of her ears.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides