weltering

verb

present participle of welter
as in wallowing

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  1. wallowing
  2. shuffling
  3. shambling
  4. tottering
Verb
  • Florentina Holzinger’s waste-processing, piss-wallowing Seaworld Venice at this year’s Austrian Pavilion?
    — Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
  • There was a time when semiconductors wallowing 17% below their peak and big banks off 13% would be hazard warnings for the leadership profile and staying power of a bull market just crossing its fourth birthday.
    — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of wallowing
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  • The Current traded away some assets while shuffling stars like Michelle Cooper, Temwa Chawinga and Lorena in and out of the lineup.
    — PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 24 Oct. 2026
  • And for a quarterback whose superpower involves shuffling through collapsing pockets, scrambling through squalor, throwing off any and every platform — such a question was warranted.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of shuffling
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  • Skipping inside, Nora joins a cadre of shambling interns whom the editorial staff regard with a mixture of bemusement and disdain.
    — Natalia Winkelman, Variety, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Bieber could be seen shambling inside, and Zlatan Ibrahimovic arrived by helicopter.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 24 July 2026
Definition of shambling
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  • In an accompanying cartoon, Spark is caricatured as a sulking giant, tottering above the Tuscan countryside in a pair of high heels.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 June 2026
  • Among them a City boy wearing three Fit-Bit-type devices, two beautiful Middle Eastern sisters, an outrageously pompous elderly American (sorry; eavesdropping), and several Imelda Marcos lookalikes, tottering out of the treatment rooms with, somehow, their elaborate hairstyles still intact.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
Definition of tottering
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