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Definition of pulpnext
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
There is enough current in the lakes to float logs, and there was pulping activity somewhere above us. Robeson Bailey, Outdoor Life, 11 June 2025 Its supreme qualities shine brightest when the fruit is freshly pulped, possessing a bewitching, complex tartness that’s audaciously floral with a hint of salinity. Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Sep. 2024
Noun
The world drew heavily from the paintings of fantasy illustrator Frank Frazetta, who depicted scenes of barbarians and beasts in conflict, of pulp fiction heroes, femme fatales, and fierce warrior women. Steve Appleford, SPIN, 29 June 2026 In the final days of the war, the Nazis sought to destroy the party’s vast collection of membership cards and took them to a pulp mill near Munich for that reason. Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 28 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for pulp
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pulp
Verb
  • In total, Minnesota mashed a season-high six homers Saturday to down the Yankees 11-4 and even up the weekend series at 1-all.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 4 July 2026
  • Rooker, 31, is known as one of the most durable players in the league, having played in all 162 games last season and mashing at least 30 home runs in each of the last three seasons.
    Sean Campbell, Sacbee.com, 1 July 2026
Noun
  • Organizing an exhibition is more like editing an anthology than writing a novel.
    Lonnie G. Bunch III, The Atlantic, 4 July 2026
  • The film also looks at the parallel career of author John Steinbeck, who wrote often of migrant workers in California, culminating in his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
    Steve Appleford, Rolling Stone, 4 July 2026
Verb
  • The team’s findings suggest that crushing concrete and exposing it to air during recycling or shallow burial could dramatically improve its ability to immobilize radioactive contaminants.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 3 July 2026
  • The vineyard’s primary business is growing and crushing grapes to produce bulk wine for these buyers, some of which are also managing the Canadian market loss.
    Lizzie Kane, Sacbee.com, 3 July 2026
Noun
  • There may be some differences between the audio and the text.
    Dana Taylor, USA Today, 3 July 2026
  • The search for the opening song stretched into the final weeks before filming, with Kittrell, Dries and pilot director Jason Moore trading ideas over text.
    Angelina Mazza, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2026
Verb
  • As artificial intelligence transforms the job market and rising living costs squeeze family budgets, the University of California system is making the case that its degrees remain valuable investments.
    Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 2 July 2026
  • Breweries may not have the budget or staff to create art and with rising costs squeezing small businesses, many breweries started to feature obvious generative AI art prominently as a way to talk about events or create content.
    Em Sauter, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
Noun
  • Entomologists actually still use his textbook and it’s considered a bible of Filipino mosquitoes.
    Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 1 July 2026
  • In the afternoon, students will partake in book clubs that read novels — a dying art in traditional public schools, driven in part by the increasing popularity of literacy curriculum programs that favor textbooks with short reading passages over whole books.
    Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 27 June 2026
Noun
  • Alfred Hitchcock turned one of Woolrich’s novelettes into Rear Window, for which Woolrich was paid the grand sum of $650.
    Sam Kashner, Air Mail, 12 Apr. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • It was also published as a booklet, in another journal, and included in an anthology of Planck’s essays and lectures.
    Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 28 June 2026
  • According to this year’s Emmys ballot, 31 TV series classified as limited or anthology will contend for the category’s prizes.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 27 June 2026

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“Pulp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulp. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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