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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

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

To investigate which explanation better fits the evidence, the researchers analyzed ACT observations of the cosmic microwave background, or CMB.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026

A few calculations later, the Princeton physicists realized that this light had to be in the microwave region of the spectrum, and had to be coming from all directions.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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

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

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

From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026

Reading about galaxies and cosmic microwaves helps me to breathe more easily.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

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

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

Despite the fact that I started cooking the roasted ones before the microwaved version, the latter were not only done first, they were nicely cool before the roasted ones were ready.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2023

Its body temperature could’ve microwaved a frozen burrito.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan

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

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

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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