confuse
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Nor should its members confuse remembering everything with understanding anything.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
"Silkyara taught me never to confuse unlikely with impossible," he said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
From a distance, that makes it easy to confuse him with a coach but, given his role on the pitch, it is a fitting mistake.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Either Bass or Raman could win, but if the public’s understanding of the markets is murky, experts say, voters may confuse their speculation for certainty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
People who confuse these must drive veterinarians crazy.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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This creates what is known as the doorway effect, which confuses our brains.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
“It confuses me that we’re struggling with that as a society. Internet access is a basic need.”
From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2026
“True, we’ve had misunderstandings. Though the ring knows when I’ve been walking, it confuses my harried morning routine for housework. After making a dinner one night, the ring asked whether I’d been on the elliptical.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
Evercore also asserts the Citrini scenario confuses the individual company implications and the macroeconomic implications of agentic price discovery.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 24, 2026
But this confuses the grammatical category “adjective” with the grammatical function “modifier.”
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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The only time Duterte had been seen since his arrest in March 2025 was an initial appearance via video, where he seemed confused and tired, his speech barely audible.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
Songs mimicking the style or sound of famous musicians have gone viral, sometimes leaving fans confused about their authenticity.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
“I understand having a deluge of information from many sources and just being confused and having concerns,” Jones said at the news conference.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
The 49ers unsurprisingly held and promptly drove 99 yards to score on a 15-yard pass from Brock Purdy to Deebo Samuel between three confused defenders to clinch it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
So many things confused the boy, starting with all the words she was saying, and her railroad train of a name, and her suggestion that she was in charge of him.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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This is where things get confusing, as three days after the Missouri Supreme Court issued its ruling, Hoskins ran to the U.S.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Setting AI budgets has turned out to be—and continues to be—a confusing nightmare.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Litowitz: There is a big difference, and yes, confusing them can cost investors a great deal of money.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
He is now 81 points ahead of team-mate George Russell, who finished fifth after a difficult race on a confusing strategy, and 101 clear of Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton, who retired early on with brake failure.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Sometimes the horizon disappeared in a confusing glimmer that seemed to be neither earth nor sky.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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