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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 warehouse owners issued an ultimatum: get them out immediately or they would be pulped. Ian Johnson, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2023 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
Noun
Watch this video for some easy ways to separate pumpkin seeds from pulp. Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2024 After trying dozens, her favorite is the Midori MD Notebook with paper made from cotton pulp (just like money!). Medea Giordano, WIRED, 21 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for pulp 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pulp
Verb
  • Then remove a cup or two of the beans to mash and return to the pot to serve with cornbread.
    Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 18 Jan. 2025
  • The Pitt is a new Max Original that takes the format of two popular legacy series—ER and 24—and mashes them together.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • While the show follows the Howey novels fairly closely, things develop differently; genders are flipped, and deaths happen in different ways.
    Barry Levitt, TIME, 17 Jan. 2025
  • In the Shift novel, a freshman Congressman from Georgia, Donald Keene, figures prominently.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 17 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • This is a case where the head of a major world power lost control of the situation completely, resulting in a crushing electoral defeat for the Democrats.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Boston Scientific is crushing it and its competitors in atrial fibrillation (AFib).
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 19 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • At the time of the text, Stewart had recently torn her Achilles, an injury that nearly ended Bryant’s career.
    C. Isaiah Smalls II, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Grede remembers the back-and-forth text chain as being a bit chaotic.
    Jordan Greene, People.com, 26 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Jair Bolsonaro’s Stay-Out-of-Jail Card: The former Brazilian president, squeezed by criminal investigations, is looking to Trump, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg to shift his nation’s politics — and maybe keep him a free man.
    Ruth Maclean, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Use a fire extinguisher by pulling the pin, aiming at the base of the fire, squeezing the lever slowly and sweeping the nozzle side to side For a grease fire, try to cover the flames with a lid or pan to snuff them out.
    Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • For 25 years, Mary and Chris Teague were textbook high school sweethearts.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 12 Jan. 2025
  • But the last time that such a textbook undulation happened was the expansion from 2002 to 2007, which ended in the economic carnage of the financial crisis.
    Talmon Joseph Smith, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
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
  • Tales of the Walking Dead Tales of the Walking Dead premiered on AMC in August 2022 as the third spinoff of the original show and an anthology series that highlights new and returning characters from the TWD franchise.
    Skyler Caruso, People.com, 16 Jan. 2025
  • For his performance in the anthology series, Thornton earned an Emmy nomination and won a Golden Globe.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025

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

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