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Recent Examples of welter
Noun
The welter of stories about unidentified drones over New York and New Jersey multiply, as do the myriad speculations. Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024 Our mother was at the wheel because Tom refused to learn to drive a car, while Ellen and I sat in the back seat, staring out anxiously from beneath a welter of books and the glinting gold wrappers of a dozen Cadbury Milks. Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024 His approach has been to fund a welter of grassroots groups staffed by people from some of the city’s most heavily affected neighborhoods, while also working to reduce complaints about the police force, which has been under federal oversight throughout his time in office. Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024 The welter of theories has become confusing, even to experts. Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for welter
Recent Examples of Synonyms for welter
Noun
  • The reveal of the dire wolves and accompanying news on red wolf advances lead to plenty of commotion and news coverage.
    Mike Snider, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2025
  • In the backdrop, a commotion of voices from distraught aid workers and soldiers shouting commands in Hebrew can be heard.
    Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Instead, voters themselves are jumbles of competing and sometimes contradictory interests.
    Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Baker also leads the orchestra, which sounds grand — although the sound in the arts center’s Pugh Theater often left musicians, lead singers and chorus all at the same level, with actors speaking over all of it at the same time to create a sonic jumble.
    Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Several studies have found that polyphenols, especially tannins, can also play havoc with your iron supplement.
    Fiona Embleton, Glamour, 18 Mar. 2025
  • The pandemic though wrought havoc on student achievement, with many learning gaps remaining nearly five years after schools first closed.
    Cory Turner, NPR, 5 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The club is wallowing in last place with a an MLB-worst 3-13 record, and the franchise’s leadership and overall direction are questionable at best.
    Daniel R. Epstein, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • While a number of one-takes are about either setting a stage or building stress, these wallow in Adolescence’s central questions about how and why someone so young could do something so awful.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Habitat disturbances, including tourism, fertilizer collection, and limestone mining, pose significant threats to its survival, which is why it is listed as ‘near threatened‘ on International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Prosecutors had alleged that sheriff's deputies responded to a call of a domestic disturbance on June 9, 2019, at Paschel's home.
    Diane J. Cho, People.com, 15 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The crowd at CinemaCon got its first look at some of the footage from the film on Wednesday during Universal’s presentation, as well as a live performance of a medley of some of the music from the show as performed by a 43-piece orchestra conducted by Rickey Minor.
    Brian Welk, IndieWire, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Sawtelle Some best dishes off the lengthy menu include the house signature pork rice noodles, Changsha-style spicy tofu, Changsha-style spicy medley, the signature peel-and-eat spicy crawfish and spicy chili beef noodle.
    Kaila Yu, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The result has been uncertainty, chaos, and immediate retaliation from some of the United States’ biggest trade partners.
    Chad P. Bown, Foreign Affairs, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Comments While the women of The Bachelor season 29 were shouting over each other at the Women Tell All reunion, Grant Ellis — the man at the center of all that drama — was not yet at the studio, and therefore blissfully unaware of all the chaos unfolding on stage.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 11 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Pretty much everything else is shuffled off to the infotainment system, a single circular touchscreen that lives in the middle of the dash.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 10 Apr. 2025
  • While events were shuffled around to fit a new schedule, the royals will also be about to pace themselves following the monarch's recent health setback.
    Stephanie Petit, People.com, 7 Apr. 2025

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“Welter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/welter. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.

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