microwave oven

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On a December day at an appliance store in New Delhi, Manish Sharma, an engineer at a domestic telecommunications company, bought a premium $600 microwave oven as a wedding gift for his younger brother.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

"These are electromagnetic rays in the range of around one hundred to several thousand gigahertz, comparable to the radiation of a cell phone or a microwave oven -- but with a significantly higher frequency."

From Science Daily • Mar. 18, 2024

“What do they have in their dorms or apartments? A lot of times it’s just microwave, oven, maybe stovetop,” she explained.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2023

Those safeguards, however, have not changed since 1996, and they focus exclusively on the unlikely prospect of "thermal" harm: the potential for overheating body tissue, as a microwave oven would.

From Salon • Jan. 20, 2023

Next to that is the coat room, which contains a barely functioning microwave oven and a refrigerator that won’t stay closed.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover