pulp 1 of 2

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 Dutch version of Endgame that includes the names has been pulled and pulped. Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019 The warehouse owners issued an ultimatum: get them out immediately or they would be pulped. Ian Johnson, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2023
Noun
There are several different manners of using teeth to identify a person; the DNA from the pulp chamber can be extracted and used to crossmatch and identify a victim. Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025 Pour the nut milk through a fine mesh strainer or a nut milk bag to remove the pulp (the hazelnut pulp is fantastic stirred into pancake or muffin batter) and store the milk in a jar, shaking well before each use. Laura McLively, Mercury News, 1 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for pulp
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pulp
Verb
  • Reviving could be a simple interact button, or even interacting and then mashing the interact button until the revive meter was full.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
  • Remove 1 cup of banana slices to a small bowl; mash well with a fork.
    Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 1 June 2025
Noun
  • The protagonist of this beguiling novel, Lina, lives with her father in a realm seemingly unbound by ordinary time.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
  • Heller writes one of my favorite genres of high school novel: adults behaving badly.
    Miriam Gershow June 9, Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
Verb
  • The pressure in each case was almost immediately crushing.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 12 June 2025
  • Venice is a bucket list destination for many, but as the city buckles under the crushing weight of overtourism, savvy travelers are beginning to look for alternatives.
    Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2025
Noun
  • Related: Supreme Court to decide if challenge to Illinois' grace period for mail-in ballots can proceed Pennsylvania Democrats countered that the 2024 ruling by the state supreme court was consistent with the text of state election law and with the intent of the legislators who set the rules.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 7 June 2025
  • Independent creators and established filmmakers alike now have access to powerful AI tools such as Runway that can generate realistic video scenes, animate storyboards, and even produce entire short films from simple text prompts or reference images.
    Craig S. Smith, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
Verb
  • In some towns, utility poles were removed so the caravans could squeeze through.
    Angela Jackson, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
  • Hundreds of people squeezed into the Jewish Community Center in Boulder, Colo., for a vigil that featured prayer, singing and emotional testimony from a victim and witnesses of the firebombing attack in the city’s downtown, after a federal judge blocked the deportation of the suspect’s family.
    Colleen Slevin, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • Moo's hilarious response to being told off is a textbook example of this temperament.
    Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 June 2025
  • The past 12 months – with Musk marrying himself to the polarizing Trump brand and then breaking up with him – look like a textbook example of what a CEO should not do, especially a consumer-facing CEO.
    Matt Egan, CNN Money, 6 June 2025
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  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Now Goggins and Wood — who played doomed lovers Rick and Chelsea on the HBO anthology hit — seemed ready to clear up any such gossip as awards season gets underway.
    James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2025
  • Each story in the anthology film is presented as an article written for the titular fictional publication’s final issue following the death of their owner and founder.
    Shannon Carlin, Time, 30 May 2025

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“Pulp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulp. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.

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