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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
open uncompress


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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

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

When the skin has collapsed into your palm like a deflated balloon, you lift the box grater and discover an almost implausible amount of ruby pulp underneath it.

From Salon Aug. 1, 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

They just crumpled the paper—probably to pulp it and make it new paper.

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

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

Maggie Gourlay pulps old screen prints and forms the residues into target-like rounds whose faintly hued, single-color circles she calls “growth rings.”

From Washington Post Jan. 13, 2023

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

The mixture of these "pulps" is run through a grating or coarse sieve on to a drying-kiln or "bed," where it is allowed to stand until stiff enough to walk on.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various

Nonetheless, the idea that books are being pulped is causing unease.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

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

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

At one point the first three volumes had to be pulped because the printers originally produced an uncorrected version of his text.

From New York Times Sep. 15, 2022

Paper birds, paper maps, paper people, dust and ink and pulped wood and time.

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

“One might make a fair business profit out of pulping it, though the thing’s far from certain.”

From The Protector by Harold Bindloss




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