microwave oven
Americannoun
noun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of microwave oven
First recorded in 1960–65
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
The instruments, roughly the size of a large computer printer or microwave oven, were developed a decade or so ago and designed for use in the field.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 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
“We’ll have to eat in the kitchen,” Ryan explained, “and since the hotel’s got a microwave oven, sometimes the plates are hot and the food isn’t.”
From "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary
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