confounding
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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
Add it all together, and you’re left with perhaps the most fascinating and confounding player in the sport—the perfect distillation of everything that is beautiful and terribly wrong with the modern game.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
Immoral logic seemed to be confounding him at every turn.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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