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microwave

[mahy-kroh-weyv] / ˈmaɪ kroʊˌweɪv /
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cook
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Reducing the need for those microwave connections could therefore address two challenges at once: the enormous hardware requirements of large quantum computers and the unwanted noise that cables can introduce into quantum systems.

From Science Daily Aug. 14, 2026

One possible use would be reading out qubits without having to carry a microwave pulse from millikelvin temperatures all the way to room temperature.

From Science Daily Aug. 14, 2026

When you first step into South Hall, to your immediate right is “the bubble”—a barred enclosure fitted with chairs, a desk, a telephone, and a microwave.

From Slate Aug. 11, 2026

In addition, directed-energy weapons, such as high-energy lasers and high-power microwave systems, can be useful against incoming drones.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 9, 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

But economists warn that higher tariffs can make everyday goods, like coffee and microwaves, more expensive.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

There are other options for space solar, with solar panels in space beaming microwaves External link to a receiver.

From Barron's Apr. 27, 2026

The action in Iran has also underscored that drones are delivering a new economics of warfare, which demands cheap cruise missiles, high-power microwaves for drone defense, reusable interceptors on ships.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 23, 2026

Terahertz radiation sits between microwaves and infrared light on the electromagnetic spectrum.

From Science Daily Mar. 17, 2026

Something to do with the microwaves trapped in the watery fruit and getting really hot.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

The men eat microwaved taquitos, she pounds vitamins.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 23, 2025

It was like being "microwaved", he tells the BBC film, as his body was exposed to the raw power of a nuclear weapon.

From BBC Nov. 17, 2024

"So we went and took snow from the backyard and microwaved it and it's clear - is this bad? Am I not supposed to eat snow?"

From BBC Jan. 22, 2024

Most of my regular life days, I have sat in front of my laptop chewing uninspiredly through some microwaved leftovers while answering emails and catching up on the horrors of the day in my newsfeed.

From Salon Aug. 26, 2023

His tongue felt like it was being microwaved.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

“You’re going to hear Make America Healthy Again moms talking about it, while also environmental activists talking about it—and I guarantee your relatives are increasingly worried about microwaving their plastic,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 18, 2026

Rangers defender Kirk Broadfoot was taken to hospital after an egg he was microwaving exploded in his face.

From BBC Nov. 21, 2025

The punishing heat wave microwaving Southern California is expected to bring triple-digit temperatures to much of the region for the next few days.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 6, 2024

This android — one of two nameless leads in the Oscar-nominated charmer “Robot Dreams” — envisions a small, lonely dog in his third-floor walk-up, microwaving a depressing dinner for one.

From New York Times May 30, 2024

Nearly everything in the store required microwaving or oven heating or scrupulous refrigeration or came in large, family-sized quantities.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson




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