confounding
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One particularly confounding and repeated grievance is the film’s title.
From Salon
Those involved in the Guthrie case say they are just trying to help solve the what has been a confounding case.
From Los Angeles Times
Shiffrin’s struggles at the Games are even more confounding in the context of her career.
The analysis illuminates one of the most confounding aspects of “Beloved”: the character called Beloved is the ghost of the murdered daughter and also of an unknown soul who died in the Middle Passage.
Such confounding and mediating factors undermine the plaintiffs’ claims of causation.
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