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Recent Examples of pulp
Robert Lea, Space.com, 7 July 2025
In this debut, Taylor fuses together Get Out and The Truman Show for his exploration of systemic exploitation, all the while employing pulp tropes and genre twists that keep the entertainment value high.
—Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
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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Verb
Superman may be a work of pulp fiction, but astronomers have identified where in space the alien immigrant hero's home planet, Krypton, could have existed.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 7 July 2025
In this debut, Taylor fuses together Get Out and The Truman Show for his exploration of systemic exploitation, all the while employing pulp tropes and genre twists that keep the entertainment value high.
—Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
Noun
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pulp
Verb
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Raleigh put on a show in the next semifinal, simply mashing balls into – and over – the right field grandstand.—
Kyle Feldscher,
CNN Money,
14 July 2025
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Laureano is a bright spot in Baltimore’s disappointing offence, mashing 10 homers while playing all three outfield positions.—
Mitch Bannon,
New York Times,
10 July 2025
Noun
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This début novel is a chronicle of Rocinha, a favela in Rio de Janeiro, and follows the efforts of a group of male friends to score drugs, make a few dollars, and inch toward a better life.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
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Those Asimov novels featured hyperrational heroes, many of them engineers, who saved humanity by building space colonies where civilization could begin anew.—
Franklin Foer,
The Atlantic,
28 July 2025
Verb
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Schwarber crushed a first-pitch sweeper, hitting the ball nearly to the right-field concourse, for the two-run home run in the third.—
LaMond Pope,
Chicago Tribune,
30 July 2025
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To obtain the copper ore, Resolution, which is owned by multinational firms Rio Tinto and BHP, will use a method known as block cave mining in which tunnels are drilled beneath the ore body, and then collapsed, leaving the ore to be moved to a crushing facility.—
Debra Utacia Krol,
AZCentral.com,
30 July 2025
Noun
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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.—
Ryan Anderson,
Arkansas Online,
26 July 2025
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But at others, playwright Lauren Gunderson’s skills with poetic language really kick in, the text takes more risks of style and form and Kennedy, who is superbly cast in this difficult role, handles everything anyone hurls her way with aplomb.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
25 July 2025
Verb
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Then, squeeze your Magic Eraser a few times to activate the foaming bubbles.—
Daley Quinn,
Southern Living,
20 July 2025
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When cold fronts and other weather systems come along, that moisture can get wrung out, like squeezing a water-laden sponge, yielding heavy and often highly localized downpours.—
Andrew Freedman,
CNN Money,
20 July 2025
Noun
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The couple at the center of Oh, Hi! are a textbook example of this Paleolithic period of romance: Iris (Molly Gordon) and Isaac (Logan Lerman) are four months into what seems like a giddy love connection.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
24 July 2025
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The rest of the outfit was textbook Jennifer Lawrence for summer, staying brand-loyal as per.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
18 July 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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Levin previously wrote and directed My Valentine, a feature-length episode of the Hulu/Blumhouse horror anthology series titled Into the Dark.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
11 July 2025
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The streamer has reportedly ordered a fourth season of Murphy’s Monster anthology series, this time centered around infamous (alleged) axe murderer Lizzie Borden.—
Andy Swift,
TVLine,
8 July 2025
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“Pulp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulp. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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