confound
Example Sentences
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Add to that complexities of water that confound searching, especially near the Arctic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026
In the last five years alone, a pandemic, an inflation spike and a trade war all appeared out of left field to confound expectations.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 9, 2025
Or later, as he sought photographic evidence of the Mars canals: “We must secure some canals to confound the skeptics” — which, today, carries eerie echoes of “Find me the votes.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025
While the strikers can look frail, their willingness to suffer is meant to confound the state and emphasize their unshakeable commitment to a cause.
From Salon • May 1, 2025
How could nature be governed by ratios and proportions when something as simple as a square can confound the language of ratios?
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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