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
"We went straight to the microwave oven," Falcon said.
From Salon • Feb. 2, 2023
“You know I don’t like recipes,” she told her father, while her dinner went around and around and the little red numbers on the microwave oven counted down to zero.
From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman
