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Topic: CHRONOLOGY

time warp

 noun
     
time warp [countable]
1

be (caught/locked/stuck) in a time warp

to have not changed even though everyone or everything else has:
The house seemed to be stuck in a 19th-century time warp.
2TMC an imaginary situation in which the past or future becomes the present
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