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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
The Dutch version of Endgame that includes the names has been pulled and pulped. Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019 The warehouse owners issued an ultimatum: get them out immediately or they would be pulped. Ian Johnson, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2023
Noun
As a real-world, firsthand example, a pulp and paper mill (a customer of my company) implemented a digital twin that allowed the company to calculate and display mill-wide status, using mass and energy balance to monitor and predict operational conditions. Alexander Clausbruch, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025 The figs would cook until their tough outer skin softened and some began to burst open to gently ooze their seedy pulp, thickening the mixture into a grainy, molasses-brown syrup, while other figs remained whole, their thick stems still attached. Claude Barilleaux, Christian Science Monitor, 9 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pulp
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Verb
  • The more apparitions that arrive, the more the Delta blues mashes up with hip-hop, rock, and other styles.
    EW.com, EW.com, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Stroman’s abysmal opening inning began with Mike Yastrzemski mashing his first pitch — an 89.4-mph sinker over the heart of the plate — for a double.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 12 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Directed by Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay, the movie is adapted from the 2017 novel of the same name by Ariana Harwicz.
    Kayla Grant, People.com, 17 May 2025
  • Toward the end, the novel takes on some more traditionally Abercrombian twists and turns as hard truths are revealed and new threats emerge.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
Verb
  • When Resident Playbook starts, Yi-young is already crushing on her sister’s brother-in-law Do-won (Jung Joon-won).
    Kayti Burt, Time, 19 May 2025
  • But a disappointing loss to Sergio Martínez in 2012, lack of discipline needed to train properly and make weight, as well as a crushing defeat to Álvarez in 2017, sent his career into a free fall.
    Eduard Cauich, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2025
Noun
  • The father of two had told the boy’s mother via text that the child hurt himself while riding his bike, the L.A. County district attorney’s office said in a May 2023 statement.
    Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2025
  • Images of the orb show a silver-colored sphere about the size of a bowling ball covered in what appears to be foreign text and drawings.
    Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 May 2025
Verb
  • Martinez’s son squeezed the trigger five times, shooting Rivera to death and wounding two others, the detective wrote in the affidavit.
    Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2025
  • Umberto Rispoli squeezed between horses around the top of the stretch and then rode Journalism to a tremendous rally.
    Baltimore Sun staff, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2025
Noun
  • That's a textbook explanation for Earth and Jupiter, but the gas giant planet has something extra that makes its auroras significantly more intense.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
  • This season of ‘The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ is a textbook example of how *not* to handle beef.
    Jenna Ryu, SELF, 15 May 2025
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
  • Graphic novelettes issued by the U.S. Army Cyber Institute aim to educate soldiers about digital threats Stephen Cass 23 Mar 2018 3 min read Stephen Cass is the special projects editor at IEEE Spectrum.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Mar. 2018
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  • Billboard can report that the events surrounding the tragic festival at NRG Park will be featured in the first episode of Netflix’s upcoming anthology series Trainwreck.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 14 May 2025
  • The first iteration of the American Love Story anthology series for FX will be produced by Murphy, Brad Simpson, Nina Jacobson, D.V. DeVincentis and Connor Hines.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2025

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“Pulp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulp. Accessed 30 May. 2025.

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