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The food delivery service should strictly be enjoyed as a thyme machine, not a time machine.
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Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 29 Jan. 2025
Originally from the year 2121, the family is stranded on Earth in 2004 after their time machine malfunctions during a family vacation.
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Jessica Wang, EW.com, 9 Jan. 2025
Like entering a time machine, Fields went from living without Internet for more than two decades to being thrust into a society dependent on mobile apps and social media for everyday life.
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Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Dec. 2024
The architecture and history nerd in me was satisfied too, thanks to the Art Nouveau History Center (located in a 1907 pharmacy), where visitors enter a time machine that recounts the story of the town’s rebuilding after a devastating fire.
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Tim Chester, AFAR Media, 13 Dec. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1894, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries Near time machine
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“Time machine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/time%20machine. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
Kids Definition
time machine
noun
: a fictional machine that allows one to travel backward or forward in time
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