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Definition of pulpnext
as in to mash
to cause to become a pulpy mass pulped three oranges to get their juice

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noun

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Verb
There is enough current in the lakes to float logs, and there was pulping activity somewhere above us. Robeson Bailey, Outdoor Life, 11 June 2025 The two primary methods are the washed (wet) process, where cherries are pulped, fermented, and washed to remove the mucilage before drying, and the natural (dry) process, where cherries are dried whole with the fruit intact, allowing the beans to absorb fruity flavors. Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
Noun
Robinson was convinced the pulp covering him was his innards and that he was seriously injured. Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2026 Lurid tales of real-life murders were a staple of pulp magazines. Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for pulp
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pulp
Verb
  • One video pairs photos of Trump with the swooning sound of a Taylor Swift song; another mashes up a video snippet of the comedian Theo Von and shots of immigrants getting deported.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The distillery describes it as milled, mashed, fermented, distilled, and aged on site, and highlights its use of a 500L Alembic copper pot still.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Hulu has landed the rights to the novel to adapt into an hour-long drama series.
    Dominique Fluker, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • That’s when Saunders offered the first public reading of his new novel, Vigil.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta Platform crushed its fourth quarter, beating on the top and bottom lines.
    , CNBC, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The administration has since further devolved into an extension of his worldview, one where might — and white — makes right and all critics must be crushed.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • That campaign was based on a survey that predated Apple’s release of iOS 26, which added both text scam filtering and call filtering to iPhone for the first time.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • In any case, makers of non-AI systems could potentially be squeezed into this definition, so all software and systems developers should be mindful of whether their automation could fall into this zone.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 25 Jan. 2026
  • The loss of those supplies — and the hard currency Havana earned by reselling part of them — has further squeezed an already fragile economy.
    Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The role of the smartphone in all of this is a textbook illustration of the concept of moral hazard, or a setup that makes damaging behavior all but inevitable.
    Rand Richards Cooper, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Two school districts in the Phoenix area are using a textbook that outwardly appears identical — but contains divergent lessons on recent history.
    Alexandra Hardle, AZCentral.com, 8 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Alfred Hitchcock turned one of Woolrich’s novelettes into Rear Window, for which Woolrich was paid the grand sum of $650.
    Sam Kashner, Air Mail, 12 Apr. 2025
  • What began as an audio-only novelette (drawing on el-Mohtar’s own experience with the harp) has transformed into a novella with illustrations: In the town of Thistleford, Hawthorn sisters Esther and Ysabel raise their voices together to sing about everything from adventure to sadness.
    Natalie Zutter January 2, Literary Hub, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Jamie Reid, the graphic designer who made the famous image of Queen Elizabeth II with a safety pin through her mouth, did the cover for the first English-language Situationist anthology.
    Hari Kunzru, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Taking on a season-long storyline rather than the anthology format of the '90s TV series, Goosebumps follows a group of teens who are haunted by the ghost of another teen, Harold Biddle.
    Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Jan. 2026

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“Pulp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulp. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.

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