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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

“It’s as if you teleport yourself to the answer, but you have no idea how you got there,” he says.

From Slate ● Aug. 15, 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

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

From there, I could teleport directly to Middletown.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

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

Then, in a very early area, you can encounter an item that teleports you to a new location.

From The Verge ● Apr. 4, 2022

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

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

One theory is that today’s 20-year-olds were just launching into teenhood when the pandemic teleported them from their classrooms to isolated computer screens.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

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

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

From there, I teleported back to the transport terminal next to my school on Ludus.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

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

Sure, he did a lot of teleporting around the OASIS, completing quests and leveling up his avatar, but he didn’t actually know anything.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline



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