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In this recipe at Food & Wine, David Chang "pulverizes the kombu to a powder and blends it with softened butter to baste striped bass fillets."

From Salon • May 14, 2024

ROCHESTER, NEW YORK—Every year, Ranga Dias pulverizes about $100,000 in diamonds, crushing them to a gray powder he tosses in the trash.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 26, 2021

But in rare instances, “we have seen a failure mode where the core pulverizes and falls back into the hole.”

From Scientific American • Aug. 12, 2021

Figure 17.45 The tip of this small probe oscillates at 23 kHz with such a large amplitude that it pulverizes tissue on contact.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

In a corner stood the frame for the grinding-slabs, or metates, and in it the three plates of lava on which the Indian crushes and pulverizes his maize were placed in the convenient slanting position.

From The Delight Makers by Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse