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welter

How to use welter in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for welter.

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And a welter of loopholes lets many French employers outmaneuver the law."So then, what's all the hubbub?

Examples14
Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

a confused multitude of things

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of welter gathered in one view.

noun

a confused multitude of things

verb

toss, roll, or rise and fall in an uncontrolled way; "The shipwrecked survivors weltered in the sea for hours"

verb

roll around, "pigs were wallowing in the mud"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for welter.

verb

toss, roll, or rise and fall in an uncontrolled way; "The shipwrecked survivors weltered in the sea for hours"

verb

roll around, "pigs were wallowing in the mud"

verb

be immersed in; "welter in work"

Example sentences

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And a welter of loopholes lets many French employers outmaneuver the law."So then, what's all the hubbub?

2

And human languages are not formal schemes of rules, but rather a complex and messy welter of social conventions.

3

Indeed, I meant to ask if, among the welter of options, there were any particular recommendations.

4

I wouldn't give too much credit to the advanced economics tool set either given the welter of failed predictions made from on high over the years.

5

The whole welter of human emotion more or less always outweighs a programmatic injunction like "retaliation is illegal.

6

Very strong agreement on this point – one of the strongest arguments for those basic income schemes is that it would get rid of the welter of conflicting incentives the current patchwork creates.

7

Persuasion is about filtering out welter; Manipulation is about deceiving others;

8

But of course this is not what their designers, ensnared by the 'economic growth' myth, can possibly wish for. So, as with taxation systems, they must be designed to fail, with a welter of loopholes and enforcement weaknesses allowing business-as-usual to essentially proceed.

9

My translation by, Martin Hammond:"Either the compulsion of destiny and an order allowing no deviation, or a providence open to prayer, or a random welter without direction.

10

And a welter of loopholes lets many French employers outmaneuver the law."What concerns me from a public policy perspective is that people vote on politicians and platforms based on some simple, plain-language representation of what they stand for.

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Because such hypotheses and descriptions extract only those crucial elements sufficient to yield relatively precise, valid predictions, omitting a welter of predictively irrelevant details.

12

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence; instead of offering any, this commenter simply says "oil is rechargable and we have enough of it for the foreseeable future", despite a welter of evidence contradicting those statements.

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What is absent is the political, the commitment to finding where the common good lies amidst the welter of well-financed, highly organized, single-minded interests rabidly seeking governmental favors and overwhelming the practices of representative government and public administration by a sea of cash.

14

I would argue yes, that it’s a good success story: it took a welter of init scripts, supervisors, logging, event-triggered notification systems, configuration conventions, etc. and provided a single standard mechanism which is easier to work with than any one of those was on its own much less the number of combinations most systems have.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use welter in a sentence?

And a welter of loopholes lets many French employers outmaneuver the law."So then, what's all the hubbub?

What does welter mean?

a confused multitude of things

What part of speech is welter?

welter is commonly used as noun, verb.