microwave
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If you prefer a warmer snack, simply pan-sear the butter-stuffed dates in more butter, or pop them in the microwave for six to eight seconds.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
High-power microwave systems are generally less vulnerable to rain, fog or smoke than lasers, but still depend on line of sight, range, beam control and the surrounding electromagnetic environment.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
It lacked a minibar but came with a fridge, microwave and standard coffee maker.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
"They started coming from everywhere, from the wi-fi router, under the kettle, the toaster and all the switchboards. We would cook and they would keep coming from the sockets, from under the microwave."
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
The cages were inside steel boxes that looked like microwave ovens.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
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"RoSPA urges parents and carers to talk to children about the dangers of copying online trends and to reinforce that microwaves are not toys," she said.
From BBC ● May 4, 2026
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
The action in Iran has also underscored that drones are delivering a new economics of warfare, which demands cheap cruise missiles, high-power microwaves for drone defense, reusable interceptors on ships.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
Terahertz radiation sits between microwaves and infrared light on the electromagnetic spectrum.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 17, 2026
However, because the universe is not exactly the same in every direction, but only on average on a large scale, the microwaves cannot be exactly the same in every direction either.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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The men eat microwaved taquitos, she pounds vitamins.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2025
On New Year’s Eve, Amanda and I celebrated with nobody else, but watched the live feed from Times Square, while eating microwaved burritos in bed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025
"So we went and took snow from the backyard and microwaved it and it's clear - is this bad? Am I not supposed to eat snow?"
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2024
Despite the fact that I started cooking the roasted ones before the microwaved version, the latter were not only done first, they were nicely cool before the roasted ones were ready.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2023
Then we microwaved popcorn and watched The Lion King on their new DVD player.
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
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“You’re going to hear Make America Healthy Again moms talking about it, while also environmental activists talking about it—and I guarantee your relatives are increasingly worried about microwaving their plastic,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
Rangers defender Kirk Broadfoot was taken to hospital after an egg he was microwaving exploded in his face.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2025
The punishing heat wave microwaving Southern California is expected to bring triple-digit temperatures to much of the region for the next few days.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2024
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
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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