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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

Friends will teleport together to attend church, concerts and 3D exercise classes in far-flung corners of the world.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 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

“You want to teleport us someplace inside the Bureau?” asks Elsie.

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

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

She teleports a protesting Merida away with Gold to the forest for some swordplay instruction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2015

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

“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

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

“Hiking up through the garden entrance at sunset is like being teleported to another world,” he says.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2021

You’ve just teleported into the aftermath of Hurricane Floyd.

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

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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