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The frantic warnings of a Cosmic Weatherman go unheard as winter, confoundingly, follows spring, and summer arrives as a double cataclysm of fire and floods.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

There exists a different version of pyramid advice for the confoundingly complicated Cronin.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2025

In response to a $104 million budget hole and waning enrollment, Seattle Public Schools has, confoundingly, made little effort to burnish its standout gems and entice families back.

From Seattle Times • May 17, 2024

And the condition manifests in confoundingly different ways.

From Scientific American • Aug. 16, 2023

Just as the different species of trout are widely contrasting in colors, shapes, sizes, traits, etc., while in their natural habitat—fresh water—so are they confoundingly different in these matters while sojourning in salt water.

From The Determined Angler and the Brook Trout an anthological volume of trout fishing, trout histories, trout lore, trout resorts, and trout tackle by Bradford, Charles Barker