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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 The two primary methods are the washed (wet) process, where cherries are pulped, fermented, and washed to remove the mucilage before drying, and the natural (dry) process, where cherries are dried whole with the fruit intact, allowing the beans to absorb fruity flavors. Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
Noun
This is made from a pulp that is then turned into fibers. Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 31 Mar. 2026 The lemons have pink pulp sacks, giving the flesh a pinkish hue. Nashia Baker, Martha Stewart, 31 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for pulp
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  • Instead of a normal merge vote, the Survivor tribes were mashed together — with a shocking 17 people left in the game — then randomly redistributed into three new groups.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 2 Apr. 2026
  • This - served with homemade mashed and carrots is very good.
    Jenny Rosenstrach, Bon Appetit Magazine, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • When published in 1844, Dumas' novel, which evokes the adventures of musketeers Athos, Porthos, Aramis and d'Artagnan — yes, there were actually four musketeers — became an overnight sensation.
    Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The novel, Lerner’s shortest to date, is a chamber piece, more compressed and crystallized than any of its predecessors.
    Giles Harvey, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Taken together, these actions will cripple Iran's military, crush their ability to support terrorist proxies and deny them the ability to build a nuclear bomb.
    James Powel, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The thinking is that if oil doesn’t start flowing out of the Middle East soon, prices would have to go high enough to balance the market by crushing demand.
    Matt Egan, CNN Money, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • For the Supreme Court to do so would require it to repudiate the Constitution’s text, the Court’s own precedents, and the enduring understanding of all three branches and of the American people.
    David Cole, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The singer-songwriter also included a screenshot of a text from someone who appeared to be from his team.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Skiers and snowboarders trying to squeeze the last bits of winter fun from Colorado‘s meager snowpack will have one less option after this week, with Vail Resort set to close 11 days sooner than planned.
    Katie Langford, Denver Post, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The disruption has not only sent fuel prices soaring, but has squeezed supplies of petrochemicals needed to make everyday items like shoes, clothing and plastic bags.
    Stephanie Yang, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • But today, their company Lehman Brothers — which catastrophically collapsed in bankruptcy in 2008 — is remembered as a textbook case for the pitfalls of unchecked greed, corruption and moral bankruptcy.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Before the three scientists’ work, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans were largely abstract animals to most people – zoo exhibits, textbook illustrations, evolutionary symbols.
    Mireya Mayor, The Conversation, 27 Mar. 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
  • What began as an audio-only novelette (drawing on el-Mohtar’s own experience with the harp) has transformed into a novella with illustrations: In the town of Thistleford, Hawthorn sisters Esther and Ysabel raise their voices together to sing about everything from adventure to sadness.
    Natalie Zutter January 2, Literary Hub, 2 Jan. 2025
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  • The streamer released the full trailer for Season 2 of Lee Sung Jin’s anthology series, which this time follows the conflicts of two very different couples — both with each other and within their unions.
    Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The high-profile out of comp line-up also includes AppleTV+’s Soviet-era sci-fi series Star City; AMC’s horror anthology The Terror; BBC drama California Avenue with Bill Nighy and Helena Bonham Carter; Canal+ period procedural Paris Police 1910; and Sky’s Prisoner starring Tahar Rahim.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 31 Mar. 2026

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“Pulp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulp. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.

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