time-warping adj.
that creates a time warp; that moves (something) through time; (also) of or relating to a time warp
Time Travel
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[1936
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Otto Binder
He wished too that he might adapt his fourth-dimensional infinite velocity principle to the beam—that space-time warping form of energy which had given him instant contact with his ten-brain unit.]
Spawn of Eternal Thought in Astounding Science Fiction May 151/2 -
1940
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Nelson S. Bond
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At last they stepped into the chamber which housed the Time-warping machine.
Dictator of Time in Planet Stories Spring 114/1 -
1940
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Nelson S. Bond
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Mu was the land of a great scientific race that had devised the time-warping amulet.
Exiles of Time in Blue Book May 156/1 -
1941
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Otto Binder
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Its method of moving my ship physically was a by-product of the time[-]warping engine. By slipping the ship a few minutes or hours back in time—in relation to the daily clock—I moved westward. In effect, the Earth rotated under me.
Adam Link in the Past in Amazing Stories Feb. 65/2 -
1964
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Philip K. Dick
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‘We have something new…and according to the Defense Department people very promising. It’s a time-warping construct that sets up a field which coagulates the—’ ‘Just equip me.’
Unteleported Man in Fantastic Dec. 75/2 -
1966
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A. Bertram Chandler
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Grimes was glad that he had ordered the time-warping device to be warmed up before the transition from one universe to the other had been made.
Edge of Night in Worlds of If Sept. 39/2 -
1980 Things to Come in Starburst (#24) 10/1
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Chiba has a fine old time in Time Slip, too long like all Japanese movies, but eminently better time-warping stuff than The Final Countdown.
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1996
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Norman Spinrad
Benford is a writer of considerable stylistic range and sophistication, and he applies all of it here, using memory, time-warping devices, actualized surrealism, and so forth.
On Books in Asimov’s Science Fiction July 150/2 -
2012
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Jonathan Green
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He had conquered giant robots and time-warping devices that punched holes in the very fabric of the space-time continuum.
Time’s Arrow xx. 202
Research requirements
antedating 1940
Earliest cite
Nelson S. Bond (in two separate stories)
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