welter
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In the welter of ideas and insights, it can be tricky for the reader to follow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
Of the many double-edged gifts bestowed upon us by the streaming service gods, the welter of celebrity documentaries is perhaps the most remarkable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025
Being an MP, while a privilege, isn't easy, splitting your life between two places, the welter of public scrutiny and being subject to the vagaries of your party's political fortunes.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 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
He has his field light and is swinging its beam repeatedly over a welter of compacted wreckage in the far corner-stones and cement and splintered wood.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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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 who, death-wounded, welters there, Came hither, o'er the deep to bear Far off from her paternal nest, The white dove I have watched so long.
From Mazelli, and Other Poems by George W. Sands
In the underworld from which Gideon had sprung—the underworld where welters the overwhelming mass of the human race—there are three main types.
From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by David Graham Phillips
Why, it's in between the light-heavies and the welters.
From The Coming of Bill by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
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
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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
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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
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It was in the beginning of August, and the Temple weltered in sultry days and calm nights.
From Mike Fletcher A Novel by George (George Augustus) Moore
Upon the pier stood two stern-visaged men, Looking to where a little craft lay moored, Swayed by the lazy current of the Thames, Which weltered by in muddy listlessness.
From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by James Russell Lowell
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
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
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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
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Europe, weltering in her own failure, had turned towards us a wistful look.
From The Pentecost of Calamity by Owen Wister
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