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Recent Examples of pulp
Eugene Linden, TIME, 21 Apr. 2024
The Dutch version of Endgame that includes the names has been pulled and pulped.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Tanasia Kenney, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2025
And Ron Hubbard was the most prolific pulp fiction writer ever.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 12 May 2025
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Verb
Thus began a tale of abandonment and rescue as several, successive influential admirers saved the book from pulping.
—Eugene Linden, TIME, 21 Apr. 2024
The Dutch version of Endgame that includes the names has been pulled and pulped.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Noun
The classic summertime drink — made with real lemon juice, lemon pulp and cane sugar — will be the only lemonade at McDonald’s, seemingly replacing the Minute Maid lemonade once offered.
—Tanasia Kenney, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2025
And Ron Hubbard was the most prolific pulp fiction writer ever.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 12 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pulp
Verb
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Crow-Armstrong certainly doesn’t mash like some of the top sluggers, at least distance-wise.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
10 June 2025
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The Mets mashed 17 hits while the Rockies had 10, but a bunch of the Rockies’ hits came well after the game was decided.—
Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
8 June 2025
Noun
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Heller writes one of my favorite genres of high school novel: adults behaving badly.—
Miriam Gershow
June 9,
Literary Hub,
9 June 2025
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The protagonist of this beguiling novel, Lina, lives with her father in a realm seemingly unbound by ordinary time.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
Verb
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The pressure in each case was almost immediately crushing.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
12 June 2025
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Identify this biennial plant by the shape of its leaves, which smell garlicky when crushed, and by its white spring flowers.—
Luke Miller,
Better Homes & Gardens,
11 June 2025
Noun
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The audio recordings played for the jury are voice notes that Combs sent to Jane via text in November 2021 and August 2023.—
Elizabeth Wagmeister,
CNN Money,
7 June 2025
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Related: Supreme Court to decide if challenge to Illinois' grace period for mail-in ballots can proceed Pennsylvania Democrats countered that the 2024 ruling by the state supreme court was consistent with the text of state election law and with the intent of the legislators who set the rules.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
7 June 2025
Verb
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Hundreds of people squeezed into the Jewish Community Center in Boulder, Colo., for a vigil that featured prayer, singing and emotional testimony from a victim and witnesses of the firebombing attack in the city’s downtown, after a federal judge blocked the deportation of the suspect’s family.—
Colleen Slevin,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2025
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In some towns, utility poles were removed so the caravans could squeeze through.—
Angela Jackson,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
Noun
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Moo's hilarious response to being told off is a textbook example of this temperament.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 June 2025
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The past 12 months – with Musk marrying himself to the polarizing Trump brand and then breaking up with him – look like a textbook example of what a CEO should not do, especially a consumer-facing CEO.—
Matt Egan,
CNN Money,
6 June 2025
Noun
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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
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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
Noun
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Now Goggins and Wood — who played doomed lovers Rick and Chelsea on the HBO anthology hit — seemed ready to clear up any such gossip as awards season gets underway.—
James Hibberd,
HollywoodReporter,
4 June 2025
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Each story in the anthology film is presented as an article written for the titular fictional publication’s final issue following the death of their owner and founder.—
Shannon Carlin,
Time,
30 May 2025
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“Pulp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulp. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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