microwave
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Another asked Wynn to microwave her daughter’s lunch every day because she wouldn’t eat cold food.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Researchers often protect quantum memories from environmental interference using microwave pulses that separate, or decouple, the memory from surrounding noise.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
As some critics have pointed out, many AI users are making cat GIFs, which uses the equivalent amount of energy as running a microwave for an hour.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 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
They showed things like coffee pots, microwave ovens, and kitchen sinks.
From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau
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"RoSPA urges parents and carers to talk to children about the dangers of copying online trends and to reinforce that microwaves are not toys," she said.
From BBC ● May 4, 2026
Terahertz radiation sits between microwaves and infrared light on the electromagnetic spectrum.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 17, 2026
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions provides technologies that can disable drones with microwaves.
From Barron's ● Mar. 4, 2026
So ubiquitous are highly processed, highly palatable victuals for children that microwaves are now fitted with special settings to heat them up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
At other times she was allowed to use microwaves.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
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Inside an Omaha test kitchen, executives at Conagra recently huddled over plastic trays of microwaved eggs, potatoes and sausage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
The men eat microwaved taquitos, she pounds vitamins.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2025
Maybe it’s the way they suck at their teeth after eating microwaved fish at their desk, or just the emails that have too few exclamation points or a few too many.
From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2025
Kantar found there were 4% fewer meals made using an oven in the 12 weeks to 11 June versus the same period last year, while microwaved meals rose 8%.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2023
Zeke microwaved corn dogs and fries and served them.
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
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And there are darker sides to being viral: Some users on social media talked about microwaving NeeDohs to make them more pliable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
"He had tried to survive by microwaving frozen chicken nuggets and chips."
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026
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
The sterilizing process isn’t that different from microwaving a frozen dinner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 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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