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It's possible, but you have to put a ton of effort into it, and most kitchenware today is microwave safed by including microscoring to avoid that sort of problem. And if you're not sure, throwing anything like a wooden kitchen utensil (or a toothpick) in will completely eliminate the risk.
That said, tea purists will absolutely dump boiling water on you for doing it, though.
I'm a tea purist with a $200 usd kettle, and I'm fine with using a microwave if that's all that I have around. I probably spent a decade making tea at work this way with zero issues. I even tried intentionally causing a "superheating" situation and couldn't make it happen. Do let the water cool down a bit before making (black) tea; 99c is the ideal temperature. Water that is actually as a rolling boil with ruin the flavor of the tea by boiling out some of the oil in the leaves. You can tell when you've done this by a lot of small bubbles forming on the surface. For green tea let it cool a bit more, 90-95c.
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