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Recent Examples of welter
Verb
The result was very close, and the output of a welter of different inputs. Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 25 July 2025 While Kim guided the Theresa through a welter of charterboats trolling the shoreline for blues and stripers, the brothers sat on the flying bridge, joking and trading stories and scanning the flat empty sea for the black dorsal fin of basking swordfish. Pat Smith, Outdoor Life, 24 July 2025 By analyzing the positions of ten Southeast Asian countries on a welter of issues relating to China and the United States, one thing becomes evident: over the past 30 years, many of these countries have gradually but discernibly shifted away from the United States and toward China. Yuen Foong Khong, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025 Sharpened in purpose by his criminal prosecutions and near death at the hands of a would-be assassin, Trump 47 would not be lost in a welter of self-defeating distractions the way Trump 45 had been. Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 25 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for welter
Recent Examples of Synonyms for welter
Noun
  • Actual Vancouverites barely stood by to watch the commotion.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2025
  • On the other side, there was just as much commotion, but these conversations were almost hysterical — and far uglier.
    Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Ray’s most chaotic photograms—jumbles that push out of the frame or look like time bombs ready to explode—find echoes in his films, projected on the back walls, a show in themselves.
    Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
  • In jumbles of old stones that, to me, are barely legible as the remains of buildings, Cocon López could see the entire timeline of old Aké and how later people interacted with and repurposed what came before.
    Lizzie Wade, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • To better understand how these storms can wreak so much havoc, our research team created simulations to show how storms interact with Earth’s natural magnetic shield and trigger the dangerous geomagnetic activity that can shut down electric grids.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The purpose of this drug production is the sale of massive amounts of product into the United States, causing death, destruction, and havoc.
    Anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Ballad of a Small Player is part of that long and not always illustrious tradition of stories about Westerners who go East in order to wallow in decadence and malaise.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025
  • But there’s no sense in wallowing in pro sports.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Banners or signs may not be commercial in nature or obscene, or cause any disturbance to other fans.
    Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • No disturbances are currently reported in the Central Pacific.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • To open the big anniversary show, McEntire performed a decade-spanning medley, saluting one Song of the Year winner from each of the past six decades.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
  • More than half are nurses, and the rest are a medley of employees who each occupy a special niche in the hospital.
    Elizabeth B. Kim, Cincinnati Enquirer, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • On another note, this year’s astro-weather serves as the ultimate backdrop for creativity, chaos and unpredictable fun.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Following a few months of absolute chaos, as Nuno Espirito Santo talked himself out of a job and was replaced by Ange Postecoglou — a man with a footballing ethos that could not have been more different — Dyche is very much needed, as a steady hand on the tiller.
    Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The technology included corrupt automatic shuffling machines that read cards and predicted which player had the best hand.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
  • And after Paulsen’s five seasons in Washington, several of those Shanahan-tree coaches indeed shuffled Paulsen from building to building, staff to staff.
    Jourdan Rodrigue, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025

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“Welter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/welter. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.

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