stove
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In the early 1970s, Stephen Hawking and other researchers discovered surprising connections between the laws of thermodynamics, which describe familiar processes such as heating water on a stove, and the behavior of black holes.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
The “Charlie’s Angels” star proceeded to pose next to the petite kitchen, which comes complete with a stove and sink.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
Habiba's day starts at around 4:00 am, when she gets up to pray before preparing breakfast with her daughters on a wood-fired stove.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
It’s increasingly possible, she says, for induction elements to be combined with other kinds of surfaces—meaning a countertop that doubles as a stove.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
But each time we stopped at the tops of the hills to let the dogs catch their breath after pulling the sled and stove up the steep incline, Storm turned and growled at the stove.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
It's a mammoth task: The vast majority of the city's 20,500 licensed food carts -- selling pretzels, peanuts and ice cream -- rely on generators to power stoves, freezers and ventilators.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
Two of them changed how we use stoves, both industrial and domestic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
Shared electricity connections in such houses cannot support cheaper electric stoves, and safer models are too expensive.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026
With black market gas prices nearly double, some are looking to cook on wood stoves or use less energy-consuming methods.
From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026
Both stoves had been turned off for the night now, and the air was cooling.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
No one ever ovened a cake or stoved an egg, but Americans are microwaving with impunity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Magramite dissolved in alcohol is painted on the cardboard cans and when these are stoved the coating becomes insoluble.
From Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Slosson, Edwin E.
These two are used for the red lacquer, but vermilion should be stoved at a low temperature.
From Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing by Brown, William N.
Some of the planking had been charred by the old process, some stoved by the new, and the remainder had been neither stoved nor charred.
From Ancient and Modern Ships. Part 1. Wooden Sailing Ships by Holmes, George C. V.
He walked with a limp, stiff and stoved in his joints as a foundered horse.
From Trail's End by Ogden, George W. (George Washington)
Black hold, the detonations fierce, floor puddled with wet sick; heaving; victory blotched by fog and rain, the wind meddling, ships luffing, stoving up as if careened; and I below.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
The operator should procure his enamels a shade or two lighter than he desires to see in the finished article, allowing the chemical action due to the stoving to tone the colours down.
From Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing by Brown, William N.
Not a solitary germ, however, had survived the stoving and whitewashing, and the health record at the Dower House maintained its former standard of excellence.
From The School by the Sea by Brazil, Angela
The clothes she had worn disappeared mysteriously for some days, and were then returned from the stoving department of the Glenbury Sanitation Office.
From A harum-scarum schoolgirl by Campbell, John
In this year, however, the process of stoving was introduced.
From Ancient and Modern Ships. Part 1. Wooden Sailing Ships by Holmes, George C. V.
