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

I had a microwave oven and a box of household alkaline batteries — it just took a minute.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 20, 2023

"We went straight to the microwave oven," Falcon said.

From Salon • Feb. 2, 2023

It was like traveling in a tumble dryer and microwave oven combined.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz