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It never made any connection with the Spurs players, while a welter of tactical shifts hinted that he was struggling to work out how to get the best out of the shambles he had inherited.

From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2026

In the welter of ideas and insights, it can be tricky for the reader to follow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

But the 2014 YouTube video set off a welter of “fire noodle challenges” around the world, launching Buldak into viral fame.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2024

Among a welter of preliminary deals was an actual contract between Seoul’s state-run Korea National Oil Corp. and Saudi Arabia’s state-run energy giant Saudi Aramco.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 26, 2023

The kitchen is a welter of fallen shelves and pots.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Intimations of jazz, Balinese gamelan, African drumming and Japanese music floated from welters of rapid passagework.

From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 2010

Carole Bolsey’s paintings are welters of vivid hues from which recognizable forms — boats, a horse — emerge.

From Washington Post

He has no imagination at all—or, what is the same thing, an imagination which welters in impotence, far below the level of the emotions which it ought to overrule.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 by Various

The wind is as iron that rings,   The foam heads loosen and flee;   It swells and welters and swings,   The pulse of the tide of the sea.

From Halleck's New English Literature by Reuben Post Halleck

And he now welters in a debtor's prison, with few save his old faithful Daddy Bob for friends.

From Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

With each successive year since the fall of the Empire, China has weltered ever deeper in the morass of civil war.

From Time Magazine Archive

For 48 hours the West weltered in the confusion of factlessness: the air waves and the news columns were splashed with words like "purge" and "shake-up."

From Time Magazine Archive

One year ago, on "the tenth day of the tenth month," there was a relatively stable northern Government at Peking, and the southern Government at Canton weltered in the doldrums of impotence.

From Time Magazine Archive

We rode on the crest of a wave, and we weltered in the trough of the sea; but we only seemed to create or control.

From Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic by Herbert Quick

And my thoughts were as weltered as the scene before me.

From Lone Star Planet by H. Beam Piper

The echo, here, is of “Citizen Kane,” where the camera cranes over a rooftop and down through a skylight, in a weltering storm.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 19, 2015

Some people ride out their lives weltering in a vivid spiritual experience regarding which they scarcely ever speak.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2015

Spain was weltering last week in a revolution which experts had to certify as absolutely Grade A. Its authentic qualities of mass upheaval reduced to secondary stature both the government leaders and the revolutionary generals.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wife At Nantasket Beach, Mass., a bather thought he saw his wife weltering in the surf, frantically summoned lifeguards, who plunged in, rescued a beer keg.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now it was all hidden, as they sank into a weltering green valley with tumbling green walls all about them.

From Maid of the Mist by John Oxenham