welter

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

The original room and kitchen soon disappeared in a welter of these lean-tos.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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

Why, it's in between the light-heavies and the welters.

From The Coming of Bill by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Blind lake of Sansculottism welters stagnant through the King's Chateau, for the space of three hours.

From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle

Behoves us, not to enter exploratively its dim embroiled deeps; yet to stand with unwavering eyes, looking how it welters; what notable phases and occurrences it will successively throw up.

From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle

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

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

He rolled and he weltered and wallowed — You'd kick your hat faster, I'll bet; They finished all bunched, and he followed All lathered and dripping with sweat.

From The Man from Snowy River by A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson

"Must be kinda fun—acting," Ivo told Paul the morning after the New York opening, as Paul weltered contentedly on his bed—he had the best room in the house now—amid a pile of rave notices.

From My Fair Planet by Evelyn E. Smith

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

At present I am weltering in a sea of troubles.

From Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay by Amy Fay