wormhole
noun
Did you know?
If you associate wormhole with quantum physics and sci-fi, you'll probably be surprised to learn that the word has been around since William Shakespeare's day. To Shakespeare, a "wormhole" was simply a hole made by a worm, but even the Bard subtly linked wormholes to the passage of time; for example, in the poem The Rape of Lucrece, he notes time's destructive power "to fill with worm-holes stately monuments." To modern astrophysicists, a wormhole isn't a tunnel wrought by a slimy invertebrate, but a theoretical tunnel between two black holes or other points in space-time, providing a shortcut between its end points.
Examples of wormhole in a Sentence
Mark Kennedy, Fortune, 23 May 2026
Before the episode ended, Colbert also welcomed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, who explained the wormhole eating The Late Show set.
—Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 22 May 2026
Anything, that is, except a giant green wormhole.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 22 May 2026
Through the magic of visual effects, Colbert's entire show and the theater were sucked into a giant green interdimensional wormhole that at times looked like the CBS logo to this reporter.
—Mandalit Del Barco, NPR, 22 May 2026
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“Wormhole.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wormhole. Accessed 29 May. 2026.
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