welter

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

When, in Season 3, Storer and his writers opted to slow things down a bit, to pull each character aside and unsnarl the welter of emotions that fueled the Bear’s kitchen, some viewers were disappointed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2025

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

He lay in a welter of fine dust that had drifted into this dark, secret space over the years.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

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

The last lingering light welters on the ground and in the water.

From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Fitzwater Wray

The wind is as iron that rings,   The foam heads loosen and flee;   It swells and welters and swings,   The pulse of the tide of the sea.

From Halleck's New English Literature by Reuben Post Halleck

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

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

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

The kings—they weltered to and fro, Tossed wherever the winds could blow; But Salomon’s tawny seamen Could lift their heads and sing, Till all their crowded clouds of sail Grew sweeter than the Spring.

From The Lord of Misrule And Other Poems by Spencer Baird Nichols

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

Now she stood among the rushes—clouds over her head, a great sea of inky waters weltering away from her feet—gloom and blackness everywhere.

From Norston's Rest by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens