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Yes. According to the theory of general relativity, gravity is the result of matter (and more specifically energy) bending space and time.
Concretely this means that time slows down there where gravity is stronger. This implies that time goes quicker for someone in an airplane than for someone on the ground (who is thus deeper in the gravity well of Earth), and this effect has actually been measured. The effect is very tiny because gravity isn't very strong here on Earth so we don't notice it ourselves, but using atomic clocks we can measure it, and it agrees with what Einstein predicted.
In fact the GPS satallites had to have been corrected because their clocks ticked somewhat quicker than those on Earth!
As an extreme example, at the horizon of a black hole the force of gravity is so huge that time stops completely there.
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