confound

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Customs and Border Protection deployed a counterdrone laser on what turned out to be party balloons, showed how they can confound air defenses.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

Eli Carter and Martin Tobias suggest that a reversion to negative equity- bond correlations could confound expectations in 2026.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 22, 2025

England can confound their critics by landing a Grand Slam in the forthcoming Six Nations, says new captain Maro Itoje.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2025

The forms of power that art creates, and the ones it so often leaves us without, confound and obsess me.

From Salon • Nov. 12, 2024

“Tell me where you feel it and I’ll plot a course for us that will confound its pursuit.”

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman