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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

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

If I could teleport, I could be there within minutes.

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

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

The real treat is how the food teleports me back to the memory of my grandmothers’ meals.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2021

Thing is, if I jump to conclusions fast, Jay teleports to them.

From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas

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

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

Sorrento and his underlings had probably just teleported to one of the other playing fields.

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

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

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan


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