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pulp

[puhlp] / pʌlp /
ADJECTIVE
cheap, vulgar, especially regarding reading material
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VERB
mash, pulverize
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STRONG
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It’s a good time to revisit Alec Nevala-Lee’s 2018 book, “Astounding,” largely a biography of John W. Campbell, guru of the pulp magazine Astounding Science Fiction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

But even then, the film feels energized by its bold mixture of pulp pleasures and weighty musings, operating with a bruising efficiency that Ali’s skilled assassin would no doubt respect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

For now, Carney's planned Canadian retaliatory duties are strategic "dollar-for-dollar" countermeasures focused on steel, dairy, appliances, agricultural equipment, electronics, pulp and paper - though the list is still being finalised.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

The tariffs will target US steel and dairy, while also covering sectors like agricultural equipment, pulp and paper, as well as electronics.

From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026

A seed floated in the thick layer of pulp that formed at the top of the glass.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

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

Maggie Gourlay pulps old screen prints and forms the residues into target-like rounds whose faintly hued, single-color circles she calls “growth rings.”

From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2023

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

Comic books and graphic novels have gone from the pulps, the penny press and disposable popular culture to now being, in their best examples, considered as literature.

From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2019

Paper made from the pulps of sulphite and sulphate processes is capable of yielding a very soluble pyroxyline.

From Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise by P. Gerald (Percy Gerald) Sanford

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

While their treatment of the ancient world is informed, to say the least, by their prior work, the scenario also feels like Hallmark pulped through a Disney strainer.

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2023

After the cellulose is pulped, the water is extracted and then used in the subsequent bleaching process.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2023

She counseled readers to stick to fresh grated coconut, sweetened with a little sugar in alternating layers with pulped oranges.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 21, 2023

Paper birds, paper maps, paper people, dust and ink and pulped wood and time.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

In a lab in a renovated warehouse on the banks of a churning, brown river in Belém, Brazil, machines are pulping candidates for the next global "superfood".

From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2025

DMS also results from kraft pulping, producing a ghastly, retch-inducing smell you’ll have noticed if you’ve ever driven by a paper processing plant.

From Salon ● May 31, 2025

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

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

Walker, J. Handbook of coffee pulpers and pulping.

From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers




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