Example Sentences

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I can’t adjust the noise cancellation mode on my Bose headphones except through a phone app; the same goes for my ultra-fancy automated pour-over coffee maker and self-heating coffee mug.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2025

MIT researchers have used 3D printing to produce self-heating microfluidic devices, demonstrating a technique which could someday be used to rapidly create cheap, yet accurate, tools to detect a host of diseases.

From Science Daily • Dec. 11, 2023

“In situations like this, there’s thermal runaway, which is an uncontrollable self-heating state,” These are extremely hard to extinguish,” Phoenix Fire Department Captain Todd Keller told KPHO-TV.

From Washington Times • Jun. 24, 2023

When it starts doing so in 2035, it will aim to reach ‘burning’ stage, Luce explains “where the self-heating power is the dominant source of heating”.

From Scientific American • Dec. 13, 2022

“And what is this queer looking can that has a label telling that it is self-heating; explain to me how can that be?” asked X-Ray Tyson.

From Phil Bradley's Snow-shoe Trail The Mountain Boys in the Canada Wilds by Boone, Silas K.