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pulp
adjective as in cheap, vulgar, especially regarding reading material
noun as in flesh of plant, animal
Example Sentences
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.
The pulp magazines that featured 20th-century fantasy and science fiction were fronted by illustrations that could be laughable or lurid.
Southern California’s “Edenic” climate would be promoted on paper made from the pulped trunks of “demoniacal” trees.
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".
They are taking his eucalyptus logs to a pulp mill in Uruguay 15 kilometers away.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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