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
The Greeks never tried to confuse the audience in the pursuit of suspense.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
The aim is to confuse the male moth and alter the normal behavior so that, in the welter of attractive scents, he cannot find the true scent trail leading to the female.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
“It confuses the market” that growth expectations didn’t get a lift despite AI-chip revenue jumping more than 143% from a year ago, Mulberry said.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 5, 2026
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
Though the ring knows when I’ve been walking, it confuses my harried morning routine for housework.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
There’s a smudge of bright color on his lips, which confuses me for a second until I realize it’s her lipstick.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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
Whenever he seems confused, I’m delighted; it’s reassuring to see someone so smart still struggle to fathom this thing of ours.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Donald Trump was a busy man when the film “Starship Troopers” debuted to largely confused audiences in 1997.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
"I was so drowsy, so confused, almost delirious," she recalled.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
“I don’t know what you’re talking about. Maybe you got me confused with some other Emma?”
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
Their cases are confusing enough to stay interesting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
"These cats are confusing because they look so similar and there are few specimens in museums, so even now we are still learning how to tell them apart as genetics reveal more species," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
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
This split makes Apple’s release more confusing, so I divided this guide into two parts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
After 1659 the English usually called this ‘the mechanical philosophy’, although Boyle was soon to introduce the much less confusing terms ‘the corpuscularian philosophy’ and ‘the corpuscular philosophy’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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