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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
open uncompress


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The researchers don’t yet know exactly what it will cost to cultivate, harvest, transport and process hesperaloe into pulp at scale, but say early signs are that the cost could compare favorably with wood.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 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

Mr. Hockney created carpets and stained-glass windows; designed sets and costumes for ballet and opera; and made work using such unusual tools as paper pulp and a fax machine.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

His team is now looking at better ways to process the fruit and extract the pulp, so it can be more widely used in processed foods like ice cream and milkshakes.

From BBC May 25, 2026

Clare reached up to inspect the source of Nine’s horror and found the sticky pulp he’d smashed over himself earlier.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Although similar imagery would grace the covers of salacious pulp magazines after World War I, there was a difference between Picou’s era and that of the pulps.

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

Boil the pulps until tender, then pass them through a colander to remove the seeds.

From The Century Cook Book by Ronald, Mary

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

The Turner Prize-nominated artist David Shrigley has pulped 6,000 copies of Dan Brown's best-seller The Da Vinci Code and republished them as George Orwell's novel 1984.

From BBC Oct. 25, 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

At one point the first three volumes had to be pulped because the printers originally produced an uncorrected version of his text.

From New York Times Sep. 15, 2022

She swallows the pulped shreds of the paper.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

"The pulping and the storage of the pulp."

From Salon Aug. 14, 2024

All are “vertically integrated” — they have harvesting and pulping capabilities as well as box-making plants and distribution networks — and most have grown, like predatory aquarium fish, by devouring their smaller peers.

From New York Times Nov. 28, 2022

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

The pulping surface was made of copper, and was pierced with a half-moon punch that raised the cut edges into half circles.

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




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