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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
Imagine a literary world without public libraries, without a New York Public Library or a Library of Congress as all-embracing book collections, in which the sole arbiters of what’s kept and what’s pulped are the publishers themselves—or the conglomerates that take them over. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 27 June 2023 The little ticket-taker in everyone longs for hiatus, release, the distant crash of buildings tumbling down, perhaps even not so distant, but just far enough away to still keep safe while last century’s rubble is pulped. Jessi Jezewska Stevens, Harper's Magazine, 14 Sep. 2022
Noun
The women are strong-willed, mouthy, and uncharacteristically bold in this pulp staple. B.j. Colangelo, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2024 Turn off the heat and break out your potato masher to mash the apples into a pulp. Jillian Dara, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for pulp 
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Verb
  • Use your chopsticks to mash the beef together with the rice, sambal, etc., then savor each sweet, spicy, tangy bite.
    Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Use the back of a wooden spoon to mash berries and mix the ingredients together.
    Alice Jones Webb, Outdoor Life, 5 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • His encounter with Eugene Allerton (Drew Starkey) changes both of their lives in the adaptation of Burroughs’ unfinished novel.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The novel stirred public outrage over the degraded state of the cathedral.
    Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Texas will be trying to overcome a crushing loss to Georgia in the SEC title game.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 8 Dec. 2024
  • The Bottom Line: Tackle The Identity Shift The biggest hurdle, says Gill, is the mindset shift that creates the idea of being a person who behaves in certain ways, as opposed a person who uses willpower to crush a checklist.
    Janine MacLachlan, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • In a post that interlaced text with clips of Pintauro in a hospital gown, sometimes with an intubation tube, Pintauro shared he had been diagnosed with a bloodstream infection resulting from a tear in his stomach lining.
    Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Large language models represent a significant advancement, capable of extracting content and meaning from unstructured text more accurately.
    Michael Dennis, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Reusable Pizza Storage Container (5-Pack) This triangular container is way easier to squeeze into the fridge than a bulky pizza box.
    Jessica Kasparian, SELF, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Translated, the budget pressures that Fitch expects to continue squeezing higher education are coming from rising costs and stagnant public support and not necessarily from market retraction.
    Derek Newton, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • She was inspired by a character of the same name, a schoolgirl with pigtails, who appeared on the covers of Korean textbooks in the ’70s and ’80s.
    Radhika Seth, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Fifty years later, in 1971, the Chicago Tribune documented how Menominee mother and activist Carol Warrington was jailed after pulling her children out of school in protest of the inaccurate and harmful depictions of Native people in their school textbooks.
    TIME, TIME, 25 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The next year, Hao Jingfang became the first Chinese woman to win a Hugo, for her novelette Folding Beijing.
    Yi-Ling Liu, Wired, 9 Mar. 2021
  • The backstory of the novelette kept picking at my brain.
    Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 18 Sep. 2018
Noun
  • Prime Gaming subscribers can pick up ten PC games for free to celebrate Secret Level, the upcoming Prime Video anthology series focused on iconic video game franchises.
    Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
  • For the uninitiated, Accused is a Fox Television anthology series that examines how ordinary people suddenly find themselves in complex circumstances after a major crime has been committed.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024

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“Pulp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulp. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.

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