pulp
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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
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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
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"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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