I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
time warp
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The house seemed to be stuck in a 19th-century time warp.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be (caught/locked/stuck) in a time warp
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The hot sun had warped the wooden fence.
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The wooden fence had warped in the hot sun.
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Those violent video games must have warped your mind.
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To prevent the violin body from warping, there is a strong wooden brace along its whole length.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Acrylic primed canvas boards are prone to warping even in normal atmospheres.
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It is Morrissey himself who is being warped, twisted and cheated by the media.
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Moreover, the cooling would be uneven, and the resultant shrinkage and warping would leave the structure fissured and cracked.
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Pods can also warp , allowing the batteries to slip out of contact, and the contacts themselves are often quite small.
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The thing it became was an experimental format where Reynolds played guitar, tweaking and warping the sound using effects.
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The two molecules may warp or twist slightly under the influence of the connection.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
time
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Step inside, however, and you enter a technological time warp .
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The union movement in this country suffers from fossilized leadership trapped in a time warp .
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Or had he recently passed through a time warp and thought he was back in the 70s?
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Here is a time warp if ever there was one.
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On a rocky unmade track through the olive groves, we might have strayed through a time warp into a Biblical landscape.
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For him there was a time warp in which things from different eras overlapped.
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I was stuck in a time warp in every sense, one that encompassed my part of Cliff Top as well.
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Hanoi itself appeared to be caught in a time warp .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Imperial merchantmen traversing the warp would flee at the sighting of one.
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It was a warp in time, a secret crease in space.
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On other wavelengths of perception than the visible, the warp was far from empty.
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The union movement in this country suffers from fossilized leadership trapped in a time warp .