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Recent Examples of pulp
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
In vivid, dramatic language more befitting of a pulp novel accompanied by fanciful illustrations, the story said that reports of monsters first started surfacing in Canada, only to be met with mocking dismissal in Chicago.—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026 Allbirds spent lavishly on ad campaigns aimed at pushing new iterations of its signature wool shoes and touting sneakers made of materials like eucalyptus-tree-fiber pulp.—Phil Wahba, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for pulp
Often apologizing in between bites, Beard, 40, eats savagely with his hands, squeezing food and mashing it into his mouth.
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Michael Deeds,
Idaho Statesman,
6 Apr. 2026
Instead of a normal merge vote, the Survivor tribes were mashed together — with a shocking 17 people left in the game — then randomly redistributed into three new groups.
Until then, Jude had never read Bram Stoker’s novel, which was suppressed during the Communist era, its supernatural themes being out of alignment with Romania’s view of itself as a modern industrial nation.
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Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
Cameras have rolled on Legacy of Spies, a big-budget adaptation based on 1963’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and the 2017 novel A Legacy of Spies, which itself is a prequel and sequel to The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
The Chronicle’s reporters also reviewed medical records about a pregnancy and STD texts a week after the alleged assault.
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Seema Mehta,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
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To be fair, Previte was early to khachapuri’s popular ascent, and her version is textbook.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Apr. 2026
Along with Cengage, an education technology provider, the publisher claims the tech giant copied content from Hachette books and Cengage textbooks to train its large language model, Gemini, without asking permission.
Alfred Hitchcock turned one of Woolrich’s novelettes into Rear Window, for which Woolrich was paid the grand sum of $650.
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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.
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Natalie Zutter
January 2,
Literary Hub,
2 Jan. 2025
Her work has been published in The New Yorker’s Shouts & Murmurs, New York magazine, NPR’s This American Life, and the humor anthology Notes From the Bathroom Line.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Apr. 2026
Hawley is best known for creating, showrunning, exec producing, writing and directing FX’s anthology series Fargo, based on the iconic Coen Brothers film, which has won seven Emmys from 70 nominations over the course of its five seasons.