confounding

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Eli An analyst noted thin details and potential confounding factors.

From Barron's • May 4, 2026

The film, written by Soderbergh’s frequent collaborator Ed Solomon, quietly asks the questions confounding creatives in the tech-obsessed age.

From Salon • Apr. 17, 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

Playing a confounding, cantankerous old painter who hasn’t touched a canvas in at least 20 years, Mr. McKellen delivers yet another marvelous late-career highlight.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 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