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(Hypothetical or fictional) One who can go at will to the past or the future, typically by means of a machine or a wormhole.

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  • How do you mourn a time-traveler? she'd asked him.
  • George Takei Sulu will play time-traveler Hiro's father on NBC's hit series Heroes.
  • (And what time-traveler had surrendered the last treasure to the Lord Coercer's irresistible demand?)
  • Reed's theory about how a time-traveler can never change the past, just create an alternate timeline?
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