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It allowed him to serve with pace and precision, as well as playing with variety in the rallies, using spin, slice and power to confound Sinner.

In what was a confounding series sweep to the Pirates at PNC Park, the Dodgers’ 5-3 defeat on Thursday was easiest to explain.

Golf is a game with few guarantees but Fleetwood, the Olympic silver medallist in Paris, has undoubtedly corrected a confounding anomaly with this victory.

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.”

It makes me think about who I am, especially as I grow older, as I become both more attuned to and confounded by who it is I think I am.