pulp 1 of 2

verb

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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pulp

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noun

as in novel

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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 Its supreme qualities shine brightest when the fruit is freshly pulped, possessing a bewitching, complex tartness that’s audaciously floral with a hint of salinity. — Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Sep. 2024
Noun
When Sichuan University researchers gave senolytics, drugs designed to clear out cells that have stopped functioning but linger in the body anyway, to aged mice, the animals regained the ability to form new dentin and maintain healthy pulp tissue. — Allison Palmer july 6, Charlotte Observer, 6 July 2026 Groups at the University of Washington and the University of the Basque Country published work in 2025 showing dental pulp stem cells can be guided into becoming neurons, heart muscle and bone in lab settings. — Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 6 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for pulp
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pulp
  1. mash
  2. novel
  3. crush
  4. text
  5. squeeze
  6. textbook
  7. novelette
  8. anthology
Verb
  • It’s felt like a time to get away from the more difficult parts of the whole world being mashed together and talking to each other all the time, and to enjoy the better parts of the world being put together, and talking to each other all the time.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 17 July 2026
  • The left-handed slugger was mashing balls into the stratosphere, bashing nine to set the tone against Contreras.
    — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 14 July 2026
Definition of mash
Noun
  • There’s also a massive best seller (Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko), a cult classic that got adapted into an Oscar-winning movie (Percival Everett’s Erasure), and a middling historical novel (Julian Barnes’s The Noise of Time)—none of which has been banned.
    — Sophia Nguyen, The Atlantic, 18 July 2026
  • There is no denying the staying power of this novel over its 75 years in print.
    — John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2026
Definition of novel
Verb
  • France and England are both coming off crushing losses in the World Cup semifinals.
    — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 17 July 2026
  • The Oscar nominee stars as Wat Tyler, an ordinary peasant who steps up to lead an extraordinary fight against King Richard II after crushing taxes and political oppression push the country’s working class to a breaking point.
    — Sophie Miller, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2026
Definition of crush
Noun
  • Although the text of the agreements hasn't been made public, the administration began announcing the pacts in the fall, starting with Pfizer.
    — Sydney Lupkin, NPR, 16 July 2026
  • Buddhist texts often present meditation as a way of confronting uncertainty, grief, mortality and impermanence.
    — Ronald S. Green, The Conversation, 16 July 2026
Definition of text
Verb
  • Every new theorem ratchets one wall inward, squeezing the gap a little tighter.
    — Sam Macdonald, Scientific American, 15 July 2026
  • The brain-squeezing rush of those starts is nearly indescribable.
    — Lawrence Ulrich, Robb Report, 15 July 2026
Definition of squeeze
Noun
  • The textbook catalogs the ways prosecutors can abuse their powers.
    — Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, 17 July 2026
  • Children’s literature can humanize Black people in a way that news coverage, television, films and school textbooks and curriculum often do not, helping to combat racial bias and stereotypes.
    — Brooke Harris Garad, The Conversation, 14 July 2026
Definition of textbook
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
  • The next year, Hao Jingfang became the first Chinese woman to win a Hugo, for her novelette Folding Beijing.
    — Yi-Ling Liu, Wired, 9 Mar. 2021
Definition of novelette
Noun
  • Much like the long-running open-world game property — and Hawley’s own Fargo series — the show will adopt an anthology format, with new settings, characters, and storylines introduced each season.
    — Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 15 July 2026
  • The director recalls previously developing an anthology series inspired by the East Asian legend of the Red String of Fate, the idea that two soulmates stay connected by an unbreakable red thread.
    — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 14 July 2026
Definition of anthology

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