How to Use teleportation in a Sentence

teleportation

noun
  • Physicists like to compare the teleportation process to two cups of tea.
    — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2022
  • That is the magic teleportation of art.
    — Callum McLennan, Variety, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The effect is often called quantum teleportation, but its a bit of a misnomer.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2017
  • 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
  • Players could shoot grenades out of the air and outmaneuver the robots with quick teleportation moves.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2017
  • Sci-fi authors used to dream of teleportation — instant travel between places.
    — Julian Cohen, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Telekinesis and teleportation are just two in this kid’s growing arsenal.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 18 Sep. 2019
  • This matters for reasons beyond the fact that teleportation is just sublimely cool.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 13 July 2017
  • How does this become an important lever in quantum teleportation?
    — Quanta Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
  • 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 clip also features his sidekick, a huge bulldog with teleportation powers.
    — Brooke Metz, USA TODAY, 29 June 2017
  • If successful, the project would be the world’s first genuine quantum-teleportation network.
    — Davide Castelvecchi, Scientific American, 16 Feb. 2018
  • 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 first paper describing the idea of quantum teleportation is published.
    — Gil Press, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • Hence the name teleportation, first demonstrated in the 1990s.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 16 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • Well, that and quantum teleportation, which is the reason that quantum entanglement suffuses this entire field to this day.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Though scientists have managed teleportation over short distances on this planet, this is the first time an object has ever been teleported into space.
    — Tess Koman, Cosmopolitan, 13 July 2017
  • 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
  • Randy and Amber Scott have just experienced something akin to teleportation.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 July 2022
  • 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
  • Susskind and Ying Zhao of Stanford followed this with a paper about wormhole teleportation in July.
    — Quanta Magazine, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Cut away the walking on water, kicking-out of demons, laying-on of hands, teleportation, claims of divinity, resurrection, etc.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • Nightcrawler is a superhero associated with X-Men who has the power of teleportation.
    — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 16 June 2024
  • This communication does not happen faster than the speed of light; making sense of it requires a regular, light-speed message in addition to the teleportation.
    — Devin Powell, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2016
  • 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
  • Instead, the three theorists found that a technique called quantum teleportation, which transfers the state of one qubit to another, could in some cases create an initial state of the qubits on which the gates were sure to work.
    — science.org, 10 June 2024

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