microwave
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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
"We found that the inferred acceleration is directed mainly along the direction that we are moving locally, as indicated by the hotspot in the cosmic microwave background, and dies away with distance," explains Professor Sarkar.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
The timer on the microwave went off then, but Mom didn’t pull out our enchilada dinners.
From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff
He said they were clustering in large numbers and emerging from places including fridge seals, plug sockets, toasters and microwaves, adding: "It was like something out of a Stephen King film."
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 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
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
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions provides technologies that can disable drones with microwaves.
From Barron's ● Mar. 4, 2026
At roughly the same time as Penzias and Wilson were investigating noise in their detector, two American physicists at nearby Princeton University, Bob Dicke and Jim Peebles, were also taking an interest in microwaves.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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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
"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
The power of showing a Black love story from start to finish — despite the microwaved timeline — cannot be understated.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2023
When my mom finally gets home, I’ve already microwaved my dinner and I’m watching TV while I sketch pictures of a pet llama named Butch Cassidy.
From "Fish in a Tree" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
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“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 sterilizing process isn’t that different from microwaving a frozen dinner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
The anonymous author of the statement could not resist adding, “The U.S. Embassy will continue to make tea in the proper way — by microwaving it.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 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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