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Recent Examples of wormhole
Tracking the Trump administration’s rollback of climate and environmental policies can seem like being forced through a wormhole back in time.
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Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2025
While there are countless wormholes to be dragged into on a player’s Baseball Reference page, many of them can be pushed aside with the explanation that the reasoning for a level of success (or lack thereof) is due to the sample size making those results random.
—Tyler Small, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
The size of the ring is also large enough to rule out speculation that M87* is not a supermassive black hole but rather a wormhole or a naked singularity—even stranger objects that appear to be consistent with general relativity but have never been observed.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2020
Putting them on can be like tasting Proust’s madeleine, sending you down a psychological and emotional wormhole and putting you back in the mental space of an earlier moment.
—Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
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Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2025
While there are countless wormholes to be dragged into on a player’s Baseball Reference page, many of them can be pushed aside with the explanation that the reasoning for a level of success (or lack thereof) is due to the sample size making those results random.
—Tyler Small, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
The size of the ring is also large enough to rule out speculation that M87* is not a supermassive black hole but rather a wormhole or a naked singularity—even stranger objects that appear to be consistent with general relativity but have never been observed.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2020
Putting them on can be like tasting Proust’s madeleine, sending you down a psychological and emotional wormhole and putting you back in the mental space of an earlier moment.
—Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wormhole
Noun
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Their older sister, Lady Kitty Spencer, 34, also walked the same Cannes red carpet in a purple sequinned Dolce & Gabbana gown with a keyhole cutout.—
Meredith Kile,
People.com,
23 May 2025
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The film lopes forwards and backwards in time without notice or warning, Fabian Gamper’s camera often peering through keyholes and floorboards in order to reconcile the tunnel vision of being alive with a quietly Teutonic awe at the vastness of having lived.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
14 May 2025
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Power, input, settings, profile, and Google Assistant buttons sit above the pad, alongside a pinhole microphone.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
19 Feb. 2025
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Contaminated cooling water sometimes leaks to the interior through pinholes or poor seams and introduces bacteria that cause spoilage.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
20 Jan. 2025
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How to Get There With Portland and the Portland International Airport (PDX) being just a 10-minute drive away, the western entrance to the gorge is the best point of access.—
Zoe Baillargeon,
Travel + Leisure,
31 May 2025
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Resplendent marbles—a nod to the marbles that line the floors of the Pantheon nearby—flank every doorway, floor, and wall, and an ancient statue of Augustus Caesar from the famed private Torlonia Collection greets visitors at the hotel’s entrance.—
Erica Firpo,
AFAR Media,
29 May 2025
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Many specialize in just one part of the production process, such as cutting collars, sleeves or buttonholes, said Giuseppe, while the most skilled are able to work on all parts of the garments.—
Jean E. Palmieri,
Footwear News,
24 May 2025
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While most of the seven buttons at the bottom were well-placed, six buttonholes showed loose threads upon close inspection.—
Carrie Honaker,
Southern Living,
22 May 2025
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The camera pans over his back, revealing multiple deep puncture wounds.—
Claire Franken,
TVLine,
2 May 2025
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The eagle struck her scalp with its powerful talons, causing several puncture wounds that required medical attention.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2025
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For a 360-degree, bird’s-eye-view of all of Jupiter’s stunning waterways—from the inlet to the river systems to the crystal-clear Atlantic Ocean—make the climb to the top of the iconic Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
20 May 2025
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Other live roaches were spotted inside water inlets on top of the water heater (five), inside a drip pan on the floor near the water heater (another five) and under a reach-in cooler (seven).—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
9 May 2025
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All of it from the narrow knothole that is our point of view.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
27 Jan. 2022
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In addition to the knothole described above, the company plans to consult a community advisory committee, whose members will sign a nondisclosure agreement.—
Steven Litt,
cleveland,
4 July 2021
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Kids of all ages can jump in the driver’s seat of big road and bridge vehicles, learn crosswalk safety, fill potholes, microchip a stuffed animal, be a junior building inspector, plan a city, and more.—
Laura Daily,
Denver Post,
4 June 2025
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But some analysts say the market’s optimism is doing cartwheels over a policy pothole.—
Quartz Staff,
Quartz,
13 May 2025
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“Wormhole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wormhole. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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