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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

Points, too, for the solid casting, from the leads’ tricky pivoting from openness to caginess, to the criminally underseen Wasikowska, who navigates maternal complexities of worry and compassion that confound easy pigeonholing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

Trump is a political survivor who has demonstrated a remarkable ability to confound conventional wisdom.

From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2026

Add to that complexities of water that confound searching, especially near the Arctic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

“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

Talk of “plant sentience,” he argues, confounds sensing with sentience, which is generally taken to be synonymous with consciousness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 16, 2026

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

From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2024

Increased lactate levels and reduced pH in postmortem brains of schizophrenics: medication confounds.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 26, 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 well-timed bets have confounded a market in which the price of oil has become a strategic pressure point for both the U.S. and Iran.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 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

However, the combined treatment didn’t meet the overall survival target thanks to confounded data.

From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026

The Sisters of the Star lived in the Tower, a massive structure that unsettled the eye and confounded the mind.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

This is about as confounding as you can get.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

For those who know of exorcisms primarily from horror movies, the news of a professional exorcist in the nation’s capital causing drama may have been a bit confounding.

From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2026

Among the many contentious strongmen who have popped up worldwide in the first decades of the 21st century, Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey is the most confounding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

The study is cross-sectional, which means it cannot determine cause and effect and may be influenced by confounding factors or reverse causation.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 13, 2026

But, as with many crimes against American Indians, the question of which government entity had jurisdiction over the Osage murders was confounding.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann