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  • noun Alternative spelling of time warp.

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Examples

  • Only slightly younger and just as stuck in a timewarp is the security council, the most powerful multilateral political body.

    The Guardian World News 2009

  • Crossing genres from lo-fi slacker rock to Greek chillwave, it felt exciting and fresh at the same time as throwing you back into the past in a disorientating timewarp reminiscent of Gold-era Spandau Ballet.

    The sax is back 2011

  • Crossing genres from lo-fi slacker rock to Greek chillwave, it felt exciting and fresh at the same time as throwing you back into the past in a disorientating timewarp reminiscent of Gold-era Spandau Ballet.

    The sax is back 2011

  • Cylon hybirds have been cryptically saying “this has happended before and will happen again,” something that helps the timewarp-loop theory.

    Matthew Yglesias » BSG Prediction Blogging 2009

  • It has been in the family since 1888; continuous ownership, a strong instinct for preservation and lack of money for home "improvements" has turned it into a timewarp.

    Hancox: All under one roof Charlotte Moore 2010

  • I try to explain to people who ask me how this or that project is doing, and I tell them that they do not comprehend the vast and overwhelming timewarp of publishing.

    Archive 2010-04-01 2010

  • Between Sadik-Khan, Janoff and the other members of the new generation of DOT staffers I met I felt like I'd walked into a timewarp, perhaps the Kennedy era when the best and the brightest served their country and community through government service.

    Joel Epstein: A Bronx Tale About Mass Transit: Take Note, Los Angeles 2010

  • We all know Don is lives in an Edwardian timewarp!

    The 'Real World' according to Don 2008

  • Northern Ireland is stuck in a timewarp from the wars of religion in the seventeenth century, with all the hatred, bigotry, sectarianism and intransigence that involves.

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • Between Sadik-Khan, Janoff and the other members of the new generation of DOT staffers I met I felt like I'd walked into a timewarp, perhaps the Kennedy era when the best and the brightest served their country and community through government service.

    Joel Epstein: A Bronx Tale About Mass Transit: Take Note, Los Angeles 2010

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