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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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Having come face to face with its most brutal consequences, Cassie’s rose-colored glasses have been removed, stomped on, ground to a pulp and had their remains burnt to ash.

From Salon ● 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

New containerboard mills process recycled boxes, not wood pulp.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 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

I broke it, seeing the sugary pulp steaming in the cold.

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

Lee, being Lee, believes otherwise, spurred on by his discovery of pages of purple prose that Dale hid inside his Jim Thompson crime pulps.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2025

She’s the one with the purple hair and chunky glasses — not the sort of cover model you’d see in the original pulps.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2022

Leiber was deeply influenced by authors who were active in the pulps in previous decades, such as H.P.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 17, 2021

From 1898 we have separate returns for the chemical or cellulose pulps, and in 1899 the tonnage reached nearly to that of esparto, with a total money value about 80 p.ct. greater.

From Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 by C. F. Cross

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

I also thought of Larry Kramer, whose plays were pleas: agitprop and artistry pulped into something new.

From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 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

They pulped her paper and sold it at the marketplace for a considerable sum.

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

"The pulping and the storage of the pulp."

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2024

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

You’re still their parent and will always be, of course, I’m not pulping the family tree.

From Washington Post ● May 23, 2021

The cylinder rotates against a breast with pulping edges set at an angle.

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


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