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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

Or if I could teleport, I could just grab my lunch and vanish off to some other place to eat it.

From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle

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

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

When Langton alerted me to the comments and I watched a video of them, I was instantly teleported back 30 years.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2023

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

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2022

Cosmic Rewind is generally screen-based, with the exception of some impressive pre-show illusions that want to trick us into believing we teleported into space.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 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

“Um... what about that materializing/ teleporting thing you guys do?”

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan


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