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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
Frank Grillo, who’s at the center of it (playing a ripped bruiser who is also…a molecular biologist!), has a way of making any pulp movie better. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 Dec. 2024 Plus, the agave pulp remaining from each small batch of Solento is used by the third generation Montes family of distillers to compost the land of their farm in the Amatitán Valley in Jalisco, where this tequila is made. Richard Carleton Hacker, Robb Report, 22 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for pulp 
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Verb
  • While salting before boiling helps enhance the overall moisture of the potatoes, salting while mashing can draw out that moisture, leading to a slightly drier or grainier texture.
    Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 24 Dec. 2024
  • On the second hole, DeChambeau, the reigning U.S. Open champion, mashed a golf ball that had 324 yards of carry.
    Ryan Morik, Fox News, 18 Dec. 2024
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
  • If employment and wages rise, or President-elect Donald Trump says mass deportations are on the horizon — which could cause mass wage inflation — the market will get crushed, especially tech stocks, Cramer continued.
    Julie Coleman, CNBC, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Most of the bones were crushed and burned, reducing their potential to yield usable DNA.
    CBS News, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.
    Dylan Sherman, arkansasonline.com, 14 Jan. 2025
  • This poser is hard to work through when we are only given the text.
    Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 14 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • These forces squeeze a star horizontally while stretching it vertically.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Egypt lost $7 billion in crucial revenue from the Suez Canal in 2024 as the conflict in Gaza has squeezed shipping in the Red Sea, according to government officials.
    Vivian Yee, New York Times, 9 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
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  • 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
  • Plaza also made her own directorial debut as part of Baena’s 2021 anthology series Cinema Toast.
    EW.com, EW.com, 13 Jan. 2025

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