How to Use teleportation in a Sentence

teleportation

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  • Physicists like to compare the teleportation process to two cups of tea.
    — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2022
  • That’s done by punching them out of the circle or using a gadget such a the Port-a-Pal, a teleportation grenade.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 3 July 2019
  • The short video essay above explains the physics of the transporter and how a version of it could come true, thanks to one of our crazes du jour: quantum teleportation.
    — Daniel Hubbard, Slate Magazine, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Hence the name teleportation, first demonstrated in the 1990s.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 16 Jan. 2023
  • The effect is often called quantum teleportation, but its a bit of a misnomer.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2017
  • Players could shoot grenades out of the air and outmaneuver the robots with quick teleportation moves.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2017
  • Taylor-Joy will play Illyana Rasputin, code-named Magik, a girl who has learned sorcery and uses teleportation discs to travel.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2017
  • Keep an eye out for the catapult, jetpack, and teleportation options for the light side of getting around London.
    — Ben Redshaw, Cincinnati.com, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Later, Hutch threatens some of the lackeys that were after him and uses the teleportation stick to do a little murder.
    — Leah Marilla Thomas, refinery29.com, 10 May 2021
  • The Sycamore experiment confirmed that the Hamiltonian could carry out the teleportation, just as it had been trained to.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023
  • In the meantime, each physicist has their own vision of what energy teleportation might be good for.
    — Tara C. Smith, Quanta Magazine, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Instead, there was a bizarre bit in which Jim Carrey, returning as Biden, got into a teleportation machine and, thanks to a random fly in the mix, showed up on Pence’s head.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 11 Oct. 2020
  • Susskind and Ying Zhao of Stanford followed this with a paper about wormhole teleportation in July.
    — Quanta Magazine, 23 Oct. 2017
  • If flying, compared to older forms of travel, is essentially a kind of teleportation, then the airport is a big part of the machine.
    — Mark Vanhoenacker, Slate Magazine, 7 Sep. 2017
  • If successful, the project would be the world’s first genuine quantum-teleportation network.
    — Davide Castelvecchi, Scientific American, 16 Feb. 2018
  • The first paper describing the idea of quantum teleportation is published.
    — Gil Press, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Krakoans get there by walking through teleportation gates grown by the island itself, which don’t allow non-mutants passage.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 10 July 2021
  • The whole idea of warp drive or teleportation—those were plot devices that were included by [Star Trek creator] Gene Roddenberry.
    — National Geographic, 16 June 2016
  • Sci-fi authors used to dream of teleportation — instant travel between places.
    — Julian Cohen, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2022
  • This matters for reasons beyond the fact that teleportation is just sublimely cool.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 13 July 2017
  • Eros is a fellow Eternal, and brother of Thanos, while Pip is an alien with teleportation powers, though his often-drunken state gets him into trouble.
    — Richard Newby, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2021
  • Telekinesis and teleportation are just two in this kid’s growing arsenal.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 18 Sep. 2019
  • But the strange new rash of vanishings draws Zeiger’s mind back decades earlier to a physicist who was suspected of mastering teleportation.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2020
  • On the topic of super powers, two-time Olympic medalist and Indiana native Nick Goepper said reading minds and teleportation aren't for him.
    — David Lindquist, Indianapolis Star, 27 May 2018
  • The clip also features his sidekick, a huge bulldog with teleportation powers.
    — Brooke Metz, USA TODAY, 29 June 2017
  • Four years ago, Sissy Spacek and David Strathairn appeared in a wonderful little movie about an older couple, living out in the middle of nowhere, who build a makeshift teleportation machine in their garage.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 16 May 2022
  • Researchers have sent messages dozens of miles using teleportation, a quantum phenomenon that has nothing to do with Star Trek.
    — Devin Powell, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2016
  • Most nights, Siegfried & Roy each covered five miles during the course of a single show, because sometimes what looks like teleportation is just someone running really fast through a tunnel.
    — Chris Jones, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Carrey's Biden then got into a teleportation machine, which accidentally turned him into the fly that landed on Pence's head at the debate.
    — Frank Pallotta, CNN, 11 Oct. 2020
  • Call of Duty players will be able to access charge jump, electric shockwave, laser vision, and teleportation powers in-game with various Temp V cartridges.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 10 July 2023

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