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microwave

[mahy-kroh-weyv] / ˈmaɪ kroʊˌweɪv /
VERB
cook
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In one silent detail, Winter puts his laptop in the microwave, planning to destroy his cravings before he types the wrong thing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

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

Instead of relying on conventional microwave pulses, the researchers continuously applied a mechanical driving field made from phonons.

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

But later, when Imani puts it on pause so we can take a break to put popcorn in the microwave, I look at her.

From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper

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

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

Because microwaves generate heat throughout the food, they promote vapor formation and help maintain internal pressure that keeps oil from being absorbed as easily.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 2, 2026

Either electrical current from divertors or from microwaves ionizes the gas, igniting an electrically charged plasma ring.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026

Remember: home microwaves didn’t destroy the fast-food business.

From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026

It involved an invention known as the cavity magnetron, a source of high-powered microwaves.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

On New Year’s Eve, Amanda and I celebrated with nobody else, but watched the live feed from Times Square, while eating microwaved burritos in bed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 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

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

All three of us had paper plates with microwaved corn dogs and big piles of ketchup and mustard.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña

"He had tried to survive by microwaving frozen chicken nuggets and chips."

From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026

“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

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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