Time Warp - Longman Dictionary

English English English - Japanese English - Korean English - Spanish Japanese - English Spanish - English English English - Japanese English - Korean English - Spanish Japanese - English Spanish - English English 日本語 Español latino 한국어 time warp From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Chronologytime warpˈtime warp noun [countable]    1 → be (caught/locked/stuck) in a time warp2 TMCPERIOD OF TIMEan imaginary situation in which the past or future becomes the presentExamples from the Corpustime warp• Hanoi itself appeared to be caught in a time warp.• I was stuck in a time warp in every sense, one that encompassed my part of Cliff Top as well.• The union movement in this country suffers from fossilized leadership trapped in a time warp.• Here is a time warp if ever there was one.• Or had he recently passed through a time warp and thought he was back in the 70s?• On a rocky unmade track through the olive groves, we might have strayed through a time warp into a Biblical landscape.• For him there was a time warp in which things from different eras overlapped.• Step inside, however, and you enter a technological time warp. Exercises Exercises

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