confounding
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In the past week alone, he has written about the head-scratching Philadelphia Phillies and the utterly confounding Chandler Simpson of the Tampa Bay Rays.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
This is about as confounding as you can get.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
For those who know of exorcisms primarily from horror movies, the news of a professional exorcist in the nation’s capital causing drama may have been a bit confounding.
From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2026
This approach was designed to reduce bias and account for potential confounding factors.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 6, 2026
There are many confounding factors, however, and whether there’s any causal relation between the two phenomena is unclear, as is its direction, if there is one.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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