confound
Example Sentences
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Some of the research included was observational and may have been influenced by confounding factors.
From Science Daily
“Medicine Show” was a record that either confounded or delighted fans of “alternative music” back in the early ’80s.
From Salon
In the last five years alone, a pandemic, an inflation spike and a trade war all appeared out of left field to confound expectations.
From MarketWatch
In The Times, critic David Kipen hailed Pynchon’s classic style as “Olympian, polymathic, erudite, antically funny, often beautiful, at times gross, at others incredibly romantic, never afraid to challenge or even confound.”
From Los Angeles Times
In their efforts, they illuminated our reality for what it is: contradictory and confounding, as hopeless as it is brimming with love and community.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
