microwave oven

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Recent Examples on the Web Behind the dark heap is a chair in a strange position, perpendicular to a table on which sits a large microwave oven, as if someone had been listening to it, with an ear pressed against it, like a radio. Annie Ernaux, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024 The boaters found what was later determined to be 56 pounds of cocaine wrapped in a package about the size of a microwave oven. Ashley R. Williams, CNN, 18 Aug. 2024 But researchers were curious to know whether the same communities exist inside microwave ovens, which use invisible electromagnetic waves to excite water molecules inside foods. Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Aug. 2024 Not that long ago, some of us got excited by what seemed to be a radio observatory’s detection of a new type of astrophysical signal; further investigation showed, however, that the signal was electromagnetic interference from a nearby microwave oven. Phil Plait, Scientific American, 22 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for microwave oven 

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