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
Much experimentation has been done with this tree but its custard-like pulp is so soft as to limit its commercial application due to fruit damage sustained during shipping and handling. Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 10 July 2025 Paper towel pulp may be bleached during this process or left unbleached and natural. Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 July 2025
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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 See All Example Sentences for pulp
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Verb
  • The Braves began the inning with three infield hits and continued to mash throughout the frame.
    Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2025
  • It’s made by mashing ripe avocados and mixing them with lemon and lime juice, tomatoes, red onions, jalapeño peppers, cilantro, and spices.
    Merve Ceylan, Health, 29 July 2025
Noun
  • The film is a modern adaptation of which classic science fiction novel?
    Sarah Whitmire, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The novel will hit bookshelves next winter, and in the meantime, PEOPLE can exclusively reveal its cover.
    Bailey Richards, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025
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  • The regime crushed the protests and placed Mousavi under house arrest.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Alex Freeland popped out on his bunt attempt, but Ohtani crushed a 93-mph sinker from Cardinals starter Matthew Liberatore, sending it 440 feet to left-center field for a two-run home run – and his 1,000th major-league hit.
    Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Traditional supervised learning demands that developers label every snippet with exact text—a costly, error‑prone bottleneck.
    Ashutosh Synghal, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.
    John Lynch, Arkansas Online, 5 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Ewers was impressive finding A.J. Henning on one throw and squeezed a pass into a tight window to running back Ollie Gordon II.
    David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2025
  • To squeeze all this into exactly 100 days between Wrexham staging a promotion party after last season had ended and Tuesday’s cup tie against Hull is impressive.
    Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The rest of the experience is textbook high-end, focused sports car: a nearly formula car-tight pedal box and excellent gearing.
    Peter Nelson, ArsTechnica, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Over time, these gatherings taught me what no textbook ever could: that wisdom lives at the table, in story, silence and shared vulnerability.
    Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 30 July 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
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  • The actress returned to television in 2017 for the first season of Ryan Murphy's anthology series Feud in the role of Olivia de Havilland.
    Karli Bendlin, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • This anthology series won people over because of its unique approach to detailing the story of love, of depicting romantic comedy as something slower and deeper, as a journey that is far more personal.
    Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025

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“Pulp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulp. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.

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