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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

First, they decided to ignore outlandish algorithms that would try to teleport to random points in the graph in hopes of stumbling upon the exit.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 27, 2023

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

Hundreds of these “quantum” science videos claim that quantum cosmology allows humans to literally teleport between different realities or communicate telepathically with their past and future selves.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2022

“But only if you’re trying to teleport someplace outside the Bureau.”

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

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

I go for Zelda because she teleports and deflects projectiles and shoots fireballs from great distances, which are all optimal moves for any player looking to avoid hand-to-hand combat.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

For the first time, they successfully teleported the polarization state of a single photon from one quantum dot to another that was physically separated.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 30, 2026

“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

Arriving there, I always felt like it was like being teleported to ancient Delhi, or that I’d died and this was one of three potential afterlives.

From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2024

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

I’d already teleported to his character and was trapped in a loading screen.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

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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