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Definition of pulpsnext
present tense third-person singular of pulp
as in mashes
to cause to become a pulpy mass pulped three oranges to get their juice

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pulps

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noun

plural of pulp
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Verb
  • Set to John Philip Sousa military marches, the zany spectacle mashes up a night at the Moulin Rouge with a Busby Berkeley extravaganza.
    Rachel Howard, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Cheaper pruners use a blade and anvil — essentially one sharp blade that mashes the branch against a flat surface.
    Paul Cappiello, Louisville Courier Journal, 30 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Heather Rose is the Australian author of seven novels including her latest novel The Museum of Modern Love published this month by Algonquin.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Later novels routinely took inspiration from family members or former or current lovers; the 1980 novel that baffled Frank Kermode is a dreamlike fable about a man guiltily trying to have an extramarital affair.
    Christopher Tayler, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • As for Erik, his father’s decision crushes his whole identity.
    Annika Pham, Variety, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Josh lights several candles and crushes some Viagra in preparation for the arrival of one Alexis, but when the doorbell rings, there is no beautiful 26-year-old waiting for him.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Chicken, bacon, and ranch might as well be the holy trio that squashes all fights and satisfies every hangry complaint.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Calling the deal off also squashes a host of questions Netflix insiders had about how HBO and Netflix would realistically co-exist in the same company, another staffer said.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 27 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Participating inmates recorded everything from bestsellers to textbooks to children's books for blind people across the United States, per a 1987 article published in the Los Angeles Times.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 11 May 2026
  • For decades, medical textbooks and lectures have presented the vitamin K injection as an example of a public health policy success.
    Duaa Eldeib, CNN Money, 8 May 2026
Verb
  • For the United States, the blockade squeezes Iran’s already weakened economy by denying it long-term cash flow.
    Michelle L. Price, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2026
  • The waves, which were first used in Boston in 2011, help spread things out so that runners don’t have to walk after the start, when Main Street in Hopkinton squeezes to just 39 feet wide.
    ABC News, ABC News, 19 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • District residents have been blanketed with anti-Bores mailers and texts.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 7 May 2026
  • Cut down on fielding pesky calls and texts by exploring options to block them.
    Becca Stanek, TheWeek, 7 May 2026
Noun
  • Her short stories have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies and her nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine, and elsewhere.
    Irene Zabytko May 7, Literary Hub, 7 May 2026
  • His first collection, Death of a Naturalist, was published by Faber and Faber in 1966 and was followed by eleven other volumes of poetry, as well as collections of literary criticism, anthologies, translations, and verse plays.
    Nick Laird, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
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“Pulps.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulps. Accessed 13 May. 2026.

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