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teleport

[tel-uh-pawrt, -pohrt] / ˈtɛl əˌpɔrt, -ˌpoʊrt /
VERB
travel without physically crossing the distance
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We may not be able to teleport, either physically or via hologram, but we can Zoom or video chat with pretty much anyone anywhere.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 14, 2026

The founder of the Michigan-based technology company Aperture Science, he’s invented a portal gun that allows people to teleport to various locations.

From Science Magazine Jan. 19, 2023

When asked by a reporter if, in 10,000 years, it will be possible to teleport one’s own body to another place, he answered that the teleportation of people is “science fiction.”

From Washington Post Oct. 4, 2022

Infants as young as three months know that a ball no longer in sight still exists and that the ball can’t teleport from behind the couch to the top of the refrigerator.

From Scientific American Jul. 11, 2022

“I suppose you’ll want to teleport to the future too, in a few years.”

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

In “The End of Oak Street,” a Michigan suburb is mysteriously blipped into the Cretaceous period and the movie theater teleports back four decades to when a picture like this opened every month.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

Opened by Franco Noriega and Milan Kelez in 2016, this West Village hot spot teleports you to a tropical oasis thanks to the vibrant greenery, strong cocktails, and live Latin music.

From Fox News Feb. 13, 2022

"You got some kind of food or something that just teleports you right back home, makes you feel all warm and fuzzy?"

From Salon Nov. 6, 2021

The real treat is how the food teleports me back to the memory of my grandmothers’ meals.

From Seattle Times Sep. 21, 2021

BOTHA: Unfortunately, there’s no way for us to know what is or is not for the global good until someone actually teleports, which could, theoretically, destroy life as we know it.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

“It’s very gratifying for me to be here today,” Bullwinkel said recently, as she strolled the town’s streets, which look as though they could have been teleported in from the 1920s.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 2, 2026

At the University of Stuttgart, the researchers successfully teleported the polarization state of a photon from one quantum dot to a photon produced by a second quantum dot.

From Science Daily Nov. 29, 2025

In the first two weeks alone, readers teleported in to Seattle’s library from all 50 states and Puerto Rico.

From Seattle Times May 13, 2023

When I first walked into the studio, I felt like I'd teleported inside a movie.

From Salon Oct. 15, 2022

Maybe he’d teleported them into a den of Cyclopes, or a thousand feet above another volcano.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

And he had saved many sailors by flying through the sky to their aid during storms, calming the waves, trimming the sails, grasping the drowning by their hair and teleporting them to land.

From Slate Dec. 15, 2024

"In virtual environments, teleportation can lead to reduced spatial awareness, forcing users to reorient themselves after teleporting and can cause them to miss important elements in their surroundings," says Medlar.

From Science Daily May 14, 2024

She recently told olympics.org that if she could pick a superpower, “I think teleporting would be real cool.”

From Seattle Times Jul. 24, 2023

In a show that features everyday encounters with sex ghosts, time travel and a non-binary hero who is teleporting a community sheltering extraordinary outcasts, ravenous zombie butts are on brand.

From Salon Dec. 8, 2022

“Traveler, I’m teleporting to you. Stitches will send you an invite to our guild and we’ll walk you through the starting zone.”

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows



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