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welter

[wel-ter] / ˈwɛl tər /


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This is the view from downstream, looking up at the house and its welter of projecting terraces.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

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

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

An impacted welter of metal and brickwork and timber so thick that it’s hard to believe twenty men could get through.

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

Such welters of words are very common in Crabbe, and Johnson saved him from one of them in the very first lines of "The Village."

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury

Dear George! at first he just couldn't abide cats; but now, why now he's just all for cats; he fairly welters in cats.

From The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories by Mark Twain

I have tried to show how from one ideal to another mankind has passed to this present sham ideal, or no-ideal, wherein it welters as in a sea of boundless sentimentalism.

From The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance by Paul Elmer More

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

Then everything weltered in on her at once—waves, wreckage, as of a world after flood.

From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Amélie Rives

It was raining when we departed, and continued to rain all night, as we weltered through the mud.

From Impressions of America During the years 1833, 1834 and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Tyrone Power

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

So weltering from the field, we bore King Harold's corse.

From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 by George Gilfillan


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