welter
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A welter of memoirs and biographies have traced their colorful lives as well as their relationships with one another and with their hot-tempered father, David.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
Within the government here in the UK, there is a quiet pride that Britain made its contribution to the welter of diplomacy European neighbours and others have been doing in recent days.
From BBC ● Jan. 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
As soon as I mentioned him a confusing welter of emotions rose up in me.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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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
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
Jormungand welters In giant rage And smites the waves.
From The Younger Edda Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Rasmus Björn Anderson
A Western writer "spreads himself" at the expense of a rival who "welters" in "gush" or "slops over" too profusely.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various
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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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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"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
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
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
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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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Here is a great and weltering mass of individuals which we call society.
From The Kempton-Wace Letters by Jack London
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