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microwave

[mahy-kroh-weyv] / ˈmaɪ kroʊˌweɪv /
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cook
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Another asked Wynn to microwave her daughter’s lunch every day because she wouldn’t eat cold food.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

Instead of assigning quantum information to individual qubits, this approach stores it in microwave fields inside superconducting circuits.

From Science Daily Sep. 11, 2026

"By applying the insecticides, that's when they started falling out of conduit pipes, literally coming out of plug sockets, out of the toasters, out of the back of microwave ovens," he said.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

When you first step into South Hall, to your immediate right is “the bubble”—a barred enclosure fitted with chairs, a desk, a telephone, and a microwave.

From Slate Aug. 11, 2026

At my house, rice boils in a plastic bag or gets heated in the microwave.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

There are other options for space solar, with solar panels in space beaming microwaves External link to a receiver.

From Barron's Apr. 27, 2026

Because microwaves generate heat throughout the food, they promote vapor formation and help maintain internal pressure that keeps oil from being absorbed as easily.

From Science Daily Apr. 2, 2026

Either electrical current from divertors or from microwaves ionizes the gas, igniting an electrically charged plasma ring.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 28, 2026

Wood said he tends to focus on electrical equipment - such as microwaves and kettles - as well as fixing laptops and has repaired around 50 appliances so far.

From BBC Jan. 20, 2026

Gamow calculated that by the time it crossed the vastness of the cosmos, the radiation would reach Earth in the form of microwaves.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

Inside an Omaha test kitchen, executives at Conagra recently huddled over plastic trays of microwaved eggs, potatoes and sausage.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

The men eat microwaved taquitos, she pounds vitamins.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 23, 2025

It was like being "microwaved", he tells the BBC film, as his body was exposed to the raw power of a nuclear weapon.

From BBC Nov. 17, 2024

"We went and took snow from the backyard and we microwaved it and it's clear. Is this bad?"

From Salon Jan. 22, 2024

And so I zeroed in on my first goal of the day—getting to my first class without barfing up all my soggy, microwaved cereal.

From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling

And there are darker sides to being viral: Some users on social media talked about microwaving NeeDohs to make them more pliable.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 28, 2026

This android — one of two nameless leads in the Oscar-nominated charmer “Robot Dreams” — envisions a small, lonely dog in his third-floor walk-up, microwaving a depressing dinner for one.

From New York Times May 30, 2024

The sterilizing process isn’t that different from microwaving a frozen dinner.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 25, 2024

The recording includes Banksy comparing his approach to art - which involves producing graffiti undercover at speed - to microwaving meals.

From BBC Nov. 20, 2023

Nearly everything in the store required microwaving or oven heating or scrupulous refrigeration or came in large, family-sized quantities.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson




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