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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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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

Nammo produces nitrocellulose in Vihtavuori, Finland, using wood pulp sourced from Nordic countries.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 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

His team developed a hybrid fruit, named Arka Sahan, which can survive for a week at room temperature and has fewer seeds and more pulp.

From BBC May 25, 2026

After the crash, his father lost his job at a pulp mill and moved to Olympia in search of work.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

You remember the children you got that you did not get, The damp small pulps with a little or with no hair, The singers and workers that never handled the air.

From New York Times Dec. 2, 2021

It was Fairbanks who first turned this creature of the pulps into a towering legend.

From Washington Post Dec. 29, 2020

The genre of the stories in the pulps wasn't new.

From Salon Mar. 8, 2020

As though the pulps had understood her complaints, they had fallen on the sandy bottom, flaccid, inert, breathing through their funnels.

From Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel by Charlotte Brewster Jordan

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

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

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

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

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

In the wet process, the first step is called pulping; the second is fermentation and washing; the third is drying; the fourth is hulling or peeling; and the last, sizing or grading.

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




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