pulp
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When the skin has collapsed into your palm like a deflated balloon, you lift the box grater and discover an almost implausible amount of ruby pulp underneath it.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
Zorro, the masked vigilante of Old California, was created in 1919 by pulp writer Johnston McCulley and seems to hit the American screen about once a generation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
In the mango-growing heartland of Tando Allahyar, Mohammad Shakeel manages orchards that grow the golden-yellow Sindhri variety, named after the province where it flourishes and famous for its rich flavour and juicy pulp.
From Barron's ● Jun. 21, 2026
They fit as naturally in cheap pulp magazines as in upmarket literary glossies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
If I didn't find the table-book soon, it would be a useless mass of pulp.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
Following World War I, fantastic “art” was largely identified with Surrealism, while popular fantasy was mostly quartered within the new mass-market ghettos of pulps, comics, film marketing and paperback books.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
It was Fairbanks who first turned this creature of the pulps into a towering legend.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2020
Specifically, in pulps like “Black Mask,” where he honed and refined his detective character Philip Marlowe in stories that boiled hard and talked tough.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2020
The genre of the stories in the pulps wasn't new.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2020
Pierre was a Marine captain, invalided home after being wounded on Peleliu; he writes science-fiction for the pulps.
From Murder in the Gunroom by H. Beam Piper
Southern California’s “Edenic” climate would be promoted on paper made from the pulped trunks of “demoniacal” trees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025
And how could you publicly respond to a book already pulped as a mistake?
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2023
Wonder Book’s damaged items on life support are pulped to produce 100,000 pounds monthly of recycled paper.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2022
He wrote a soccer autobiography that should not have immediately been pulped.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2022
She swallows the pulped shreds of the paper.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
We created a durable bio-based foam using lignin, a byproduct of the paper pulping industry, and a vegetable oil-based curing agent that introduces flexibility and toughness to the final material.
From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2023
Healthcare providers should be “shredding, burning, pulping, or pulverizing” paper patient health records, the agency says in an FAQ.
From The Verge ● Aug. 30, 2022
In practice, Mr Mulomba uses a simple smartphone app to scan QR codes that give him information about a particular bag of coffee, such as the weight and pulping data.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2022
When pro-democracy protesters stormed the secret police precincts in 1989 and 1990, they found officers at work inside, shredding, pulping and tearing documents by hand.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2021
O'Krassa; Antigua, Guatemala, is granted an important English patent on a machine for pulping coffee.
From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
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