pulps 1 of 2

verb

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

2 of 2

noun

plural of pulp
as in novels

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pulps
  1. mashes
  2. novels
  3. crushes
  4. textbooks
  5. squashes
  6. texts
  7. squeezes
  8. anthologies
Verb
  • Created by Chicago painter Nathaniel Mary Quinn, the image mashes up caricatures of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ron Wood into a glorious grotesquerie that channels the colorful glam-trash aesthetics of the band’s late-’70s phase.
    — Stuart Berman, Pitchfork, 13 July 2026
  • The Nike Air Max Joga Bonito R9 mashes up the boot Ronaldo wore for the 1998 World Cup with the Air Max 95.
    — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 22 June 2026
Definition of mashes
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
Definition of novels
Verb
  • Katie Ledecky crushes the world record in the 1,500 freestyle for her second gold medal at the world swimming championships in Barcelona, Spain.
    — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026
  • While this motion typically crushes or warps regular sneakers, these shoes bounce right back into their original shape, damage-free.
    — Sian Babish, PEOPLE, 18 July 2026
Definition of crushes
Noun
  • Whether students have textbooks, digital devices or both, they often are accompanied by notebooks, water bottles, lunch containers, workout clothes and more.
    — Cheyanne Mumphrey, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Students have saved nearly $60 million in textbooks, and now 46 degree programs have zero textbook costs along the way.
    — Jared Polis, Denver Post, 30 July 2026
Definition of textbooks
Verb
  • Luckily, this deal squashes that qualm by knocking over $300 from the sticker shocker!
    — Kelsey Fogarty, PC Magazine, 6 July 2026
  • 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
Definition of squashes
Noun
  • At one end are old-school flip phones, popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s, that handle calls and texts but little else.
    — Maya Blackstone, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026
  • The app walks you through various permissions to access your texts, calendar, and phone before showing legal documents, including terms and conditions and the privacy policy.
    — Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of texts
Verb
  • Intended to foster moderation, the top two system has instead functioned as a primary system that repeatedly squeezes Republicans.
    — Dain Fitzgerald, The Washington Examiner, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Apple’s iPhone and Mac sales are on the rise even as a global memory shortage squeezes device makers.
    — Emma Roth, The Verge, 30 July 2026
Definition of squeezes
Noun
  • The third chapter of my book on anthologies, The Treasuries, is about literary censorship in the early nineteenth century.
    — Clare Bucknell, The New York Review of Books, 27 June 2026
  • Part of what fascinates and frustrates as regards Ginsberg is that for all of those thick anthologies, propriety forces me to concede that many of the poems simply aren’t that good.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
Definition of anthologies
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