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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

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

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

From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2026

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

“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

"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

He’s merely one of 347 biologists that Eva assigned to solve the case, so he’s confounded to be in this lonely predicament.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026

And really, after a day or two of confusion worse confounded, it was delightful by degrees to invoke order from the chaos ourselves had made.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

It’s more like a schematic of a confounding investigation and a sympathetic survey of a devastated emotional landscape.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 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

“We cannot look at this single liver case in a silo,” Raffat wrote, adding that “such cases do tend to occur on other GLPs as well because of various confounding factors.”

From Barron's ● May 4, 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

The paradigm was simple enough to make their behavior confounding: Good/Bad.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama