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In the sweep and welter of its subject matter—dogma, history, fact, law, justice, anecdote, theory, prophecy—it almost suggests the Bible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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

But a welter of economic numbers will barrel into the mix today too - chief among them the September retail sales release, but also industrial output data and an October reading on U.S. housing.

From Reuters ● Oct. 17, 2023

As so often happens in life, the momentousness of an occasion is lost in the welter of a thousand details.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

So the South-West smoulders and welters again in an 'Amnesty,' or Non-remembrance, which alas cannot but remember, no Lethe flowing above ground!

From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle

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

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

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

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

It weltered round with a woozy sound, and ere I could retreat, With the witless roll of a sodden soul it wantoned to my feet.

From Ballads of a Cheechako by Robert W. (Robert William) Service

The mob had weltered and howled ineffectually around the house for some half-hour.

From Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face by Charles Kingsley

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

Here is a great and weltering mass of individuals which we call society.

From The Kempton-Wace Letters by Jack London