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

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

Mensah’s Preservation Alliance team is composed of misfits, including David Dastmalchian’s Gurathin and Sabrina Wu’s Pin-Lee, who often confound Murderbot’s expectations.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2025

But again and again events pop up to complicate and confound any apparently linear path towards it.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2025

The roads confound him; they’ve knotted up, dark, antagonistic; he pits himself against them, valiant, a man doing battle for love.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen