microwave oven
Example Sentences
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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
Those safeguards, however, have not changed since 1996, and they focus exclusively on the unlikely prospect of "thermal" harm: the potential for overheating body tissue, as a microwave oven would.
From Salon • Jan. 20, 2023
He was a lovely cook, and when he went home at four, he would leave me supper to heat up in the microwave oven, a device that was new to me.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
