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microwave

[mahy-kroh-weyv] / ˈmaɪ kroʊˌweɪv /
VERB
cook
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This more versatile approach uses ultracold electrical circuits to store data, and timed pulses of microwave energy to perform calculations.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

“We’re doing it with our own. You can’t microwave that overnight.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026

"A stellarator is a thing that is objectively very difficult to design, objectively very difficult to build. But if you do it, it is a dumb machine... just like a microwave oven," says Sciortino.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

The other looks much farther back in time, using the cosmic microwave background to estimate what the expansion rate should be today based on the standard model of cosmology.

From Science Daily • Apr. 12, 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




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