pulp 1 of 2

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
Art mavens from all over the world soon were flocking to La Coleccion Jumex, where, adjacent to pulping and pasteurization vats, López showed his rapidly growing collection of works by Mexican as well as American and European artists. James Reginato, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 July 2024 Thus began a tale of abandonment and rescue as several, successive influential admirers saved the book from pulping. Eugene Linden, TIME, 21 Apr. 2024
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Others have been raised on the legends spread by everything from their own legacies to the trashy pulp novels that stretched the truth of their experiences. Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025 In both cases, however, the interior aril, or pulp, of the fruits is white and grape-like in texture. Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 5 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for pulp
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pulp
Verb
  • With a fork, mash the banana in a separate small bowl until mostly smooth, leaving a few clumps.
    Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 6 June 2025
  • Piped over the top are mashed Yukon gold and Japanese purple potatoes.
    Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • And maybe the next Kerouac will write a novel on their laptop as an autonomous car carries them across the continent.
    Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 22 June 2025
  • In Pip Adam’s extraordinary, humane novel Audition, recently released in the United States, space is both the dystopian place where humanity’s worst impulses flourish and a site of uncharted possibility where humans can become something entirely new.
    Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 21 June 2025
Verb
  • The Front Man crushes the uprising by killing Gi-hun's best friend Jung-bae, ending Squid Game Season 2 on a shocking cliffhanger.
    Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
  • The series-opener started on a strong note for the Bombers, as Aaron Judge crushed his 28th home run off Nick Lodolo in the first inning.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • Users can subscribe to receive text and email alerts for traffic conditions.
    Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald, 19 June 2025
  • Include the name of the group, date and time of event, address, cost and contact information for readers within the email text.
    Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2025
Verb
  • Despite remaining hugely cash-generative at the operating level, outgoings on player transfers, loan interest and the £50million investment at the Carrington training ground have squeezed their ability to spend quite so readily as in the past.
    Gregg Evans, New York Times, 17 June 2025
  • Team-building is not about squeezing sufficient value out of every single contract or assembling a roster of yes men.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • Younger voters are inheriting a global environment that is far more multipolar, fragmented, and ideologically diffuse than the Cold War framework their textbooks still teach.
    Nuri Kino, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
  • Ellory Morgan had been staring in rising dismay at the dense pages of her Con Law textbook for over two hours, and in that time her mind, her soul, and her confidence had expired.
    Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 5 June 2025
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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
  • 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
  • American Love Story is the latest in Murphy’s American Story anthology series, following American Horror Story, American Crime Story and American Sports Story.
    Meredith Kile, People.com, 19 June 2025
  • June 17, 2025 HBO’s buzzy, satirical murder dramedy (rich-people mystery anthology?
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 17 June 2025

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