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But adding Alphabet won’t save the Dow from its other shortcomings, and the blue-chip index’s enduring popularity continues to confound me.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026

There’s little airtight data on the fathering brain; cohorts are small; some results await replication while others confound analysis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 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

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

He said these things with a sly grin, knowing they would confound me as I mulled them until our next meeting.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli

“We found that even after getting rid of these confounds, people still claimed early.”

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 16, 2026

“To be dead honest it confounds me,” said Jillian Michaels, the trainer turned podcaster, famous for her role on the reality TV show “Biggest Loser.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

“You're asking people in different age brackets, which confounds the entire thing, right?”

From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2024

Even in this much more complex environment, where the pulsations of blood vessels and the movement of breathing provide additional confounds, the mosTF scope still achieved a four-fold better signal-to-background ratio.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2024

It confounds me when people don’t assist or even welcome those on their own team.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys

Raw milk’s success confounded me: How had it gained such a foothold in this country, despite regular outbreaks of salmonella and E. coli, and even the discovery of bird flu in Raw Farm’s milk?

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

The global energy state of play 100 days into the worst supply shock in modern history has confounded analysts and investors alike.

From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 2026

"When I see some of that footage back, I'm still as confounded as I was even as a 19-year-old," she said.

From BBC ● May 19, 2026

The Fed won broad credit for its novel pandemic response, took a share of the blame for the high prices that followed and confounded predictions by bringing inflation down without a recession.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

This time the minx would be totally confounded.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

This approach was designed to reduce bias and account for potential confounding factors.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 6, 2026

Donald Trump trades stocks at a confounding rate, Everlane is reportedly sold to Shein, and online media is succumbing to bots.

From Slate ● May 23, 2026

Eli An analyst noted thin details and potential confounding factors.

From Barron's ● May 4, 2026

Playing a confounding, cantankerous old painter who hasn’t touched a canvas in at least 20 years, Mr. McKellen delivers yet another marvelous late-career highlight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

Immoral logic seemed to be confounding him at every turn.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller