time machine

noun

: a hypothetical device that permits travel into the past and future

Examples of time machine in a Sentence

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Different baskets, regalia, or stories can be the time machine, the storage container, the religious fulcrum, the food carrier, the knowledge bearer, or the storyteller. Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2025 Astronomers have turned the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) into a time machine to peer back in cosmic time to 1 billion years after the Big Bang. Robert Lea, Space.com, 7 July 2025 Expect Oprah, Tyler Perry, Shonda Rhimes, and a whole squad of legends like Ava DuVernay and Lena Waithe, all crammed into a cinematic time machine. Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025 And though Warped Tour 2025 was a time machine, no one’s perspective was the same. Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for time machine

Word History

First Known Use

1894, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of time machine was in 1894

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“Time machine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/time%20machine. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.

Kids Definition

time machine

noun
: a fictional machine that allows one to travel backward or forward in time
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