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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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Recent Examples of pulp
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
The cusps on their teeth, paleontologists have noticed, represent precursors of the broad, grinding molars that later elephants would rely on to pulp vegetation. Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025 The white pulp’s taste is a melange of apple and cucumber and it may be eaten raw or cooked. Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 27 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pulp
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Verb
  • Mervis mashed another long ball in the Marlins’ 11-4 rout of the Nationals at loanDepot park Sunday afternoon, crushing reliever Jorge Lopez’s 94-mph fastball 411 feet over the center-field wall as a pinch-hitter in the seventh inning.
    Steve Gorten, Miami Herald, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Even Enrique Hernández and Will Smith are mashing the covering off the ball.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Austen’s second novel follows Elizabeth Bennet, an unmarried woman and the second of five daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet from Hertfordshire, near London.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Flanagan has adapted numerous novels from King in the past, including The Life of Chuck, The Shining sequel Doctor Sleep and Gerald’s Game.
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The other wildcard for Apple is what Europe will do in the form of retaliatory measures for what Trump announced last Wednesday evening that crushed the stock market on Thursday and Friday.
    Matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Interactive Brokers’ full-year 2024 results crushed expectations, while quarterly commissions and trades were up huge year-over-year.
    Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.
    Neal Earley, Arkansas Online, 20 Apr. 2025
  • Editing: Add, modify, or delete text, links, images, headers, footers, etc. to your PDFs.
    StackCommerce Team (Sponsored), PC Magazine, 19 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Mike Pavlik, whose family lived across the alley behind ours and who was the leadoff batter on our softball team, squeezed my arm.
    David McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Consumer confidence has taken a nosedive in 2025 as Americans grow more concerned that inflation could spike again, and tariffs will squeeze their wallets.
    Austin Denean, Baltimore Sun, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In this respect, keep in mind that according to textbook theory, returns and risk should be positively correlated, not the reverse.
    Hersh Shefrin, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
  • The textbook first thing that businesses do in response to economic uncertainty is to protect their balance sheet to hold onto as much money as possible for a rainy day down the road.
    Justin Worland, Time, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Graphic novelettes issued by the U.S. Army Cyber Institute aim to educate soldiers about digital threats Stephen Cass 23 Mar 2018 3 min read Stephen Cass is the special projects editor at IEEE Spectrum.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Mar. 2018
  • The next year, Hao Jingfang became the first Chinese woman to win a Hugo, for her novelette Folding Beijing.
    Yi-Ling Liu, Wired, 9 Mar. 2021
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  • Netflix's sci-fi anthology series mines our modern age for thought-provoking (and often terrifying) parables.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Since the British anthology series premiered in 2011, some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry have starred in standalone episodes that take a stab at predicting the outrageous and horrifying future of digital innovations.
    Emily Blackwood, People.com, 17 Apr. 2025

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“Pulp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulp. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.

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