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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

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

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

Users could now teleport back and forth between their favorite fictional worlds.

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

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

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 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

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

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2021

While I explained how to join the guild, I teleported to the town where his character was.

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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