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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An outpouring, as of liquid or gas.

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  • verb Present participle of well.

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Examples

  • IN NO WAY should he ever get another gig playing Clark/Supes. jason b opinions cannot be false, and if you knew anything about filmmaking you would know that a talented director can bring a performance out of even the stiffest of actors. welling is just fine, and would be great under nolan. but this is fun, im enjoying the crush you have on me where you follow my statements around and get all worked up over things i post. i'll be posting on transformers 3 later on, hope to see you there. jason b

    More Crazy Rumors: Jonah Nolan to Direct Superman? | /Film 2010

  • A combination of two marine sediment records from the Arabian Sea in which the percentage of the foraminifera Globigerina bulloides reflects the extent of ocean up-welling, which is determined by the strength of monsoons, which in turn indirectly reflect both summer and winter large-scale temperature changes through the differential seasonal heating and cooling of the Asian continent and surrounding oceans.

    Dongge Cave « Climate Audit 2007

  • Original description: A combination of two marine sediment records from the Arabian Sea [Gupta et al 2003; Overpeck et al 1996] in which the percentage of the foraminifera Globigerina bulloides reflects the extent of ocean up-welling, which is determined by the strength of monsoons, which in turn indirectly reflect both summer and winter large-scale temperature changes through the differential seasonal heating and cooling of the Asian continent and surrounding oceans [Overpeck et al 1996].

    Moberg's G. Bulloides « Climate Audit 2006

  • A combination of two marine sediment records from the Arabian Sea in which the percentage of the foraminifera Globigerina bulloides reflects the extent of ocean up-welling, which is determined by the strength of monsoons, which in turn indirectly reflect both summer and winter large-scale temperature changes through the differential seasonal heating and cooling of the Asian continent and surrounding oceans… Although this record reflects temperatures only indirectly, it was included to improve the balance in the geographical distribution of proxy sites.

    Moberg #5: Arabian Sea glob. bulloides « Climate Audit 2005

  • As a Christian, my understanding is that what I'm doing is allowing the life of Jesus to come alive in me with the Holy Spirit, which means that from the depth of my being as a believer there rises up a kind of welling-up of life and love directed towards that mysterious source of Jesus 'being, which we call God the Father.

    The Archbishop on Understanding Prayer 2009

  • Should you, however, be a winner, any exhibition of the purse might be construed into an unseemly desire of "welling," or securing your gains, which of course must always be a matter of perfect indifference to you; and whatever advantages you obtain from chance or skill should be made obvious to every one are only destined to enrich your valet, or be beneficially expended in the refreshment of cabmen and ladies of faded virtue.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841 Various

  • The new anthology, however, allowed him to experience a kind of welling up, a cumulative appreciation of how much squalling life Mr.

    Slate Magazine Timothy Noah 2011

  • It feels like even though your internal planning number is the low 30s, it feels like there is a pretty big backlog of new designs that's kind of welling up, that is just waiting for funding to kind of move into volume, so when this breaks, it's going to go pretty fast.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2009

  • With a just system of economics it is highly probable that for centuries she could have held back the welling tide of the

    The Shrinkage of the Planet 2010

  • The moment I read the line, “the fear of losing them, of being left alone, an orphan,” the tears I could feel welling spilled out embarrassingly all over my work space.

    If Prayers Were Horses, Grievers Would Ride - Her Bad Mother 2010

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