confounding

In each pairing, one state has imposed tough and sometimes unpopular restrictions on behavior, only to be confounded by a neighbor’s leniency.

What confounded him was that we’d chosen to celebrate such a special occasion with, of all dishes, turkey.

As in the New York study, the researchers also accounted for confounding factors, but they calculated survival rates instead of mortality rates.

The roots of this lie in the phenomenon of dynamical chaos among gravitating objects, the confounding but mathematically chartable instability and unpredictability of celestial motions.

Even biologists and ecologists who might be inclined to mistrust an intruding physicist praise Gore’s respectful attitude toward their field and say that he’s making real headway on problems that have long confounded them and their colleagues.

But it is unfounded fear by an American public at minimal risk of contracting the illness that is confounding those efforts.

But their action just proved another confounding piece of this negligent puzzle.

They were simply seen as easy, wealthy targets, confounding local conventions of the time.

One of the most confounding aspects of the process, these officials say, is why the State Department is seen as largely untouchéd.

Margaret Thatcher was a woman: a confounding, irrepressible, flirtatious, stubborn, certitudinous, unabashedly conservative woman.

This acute thinker seems to me to have fallen into a mistake by confounding land with labor.

Confounding realization then was that when Dale returned with her sister, Helen knew she would do the same thing over again!

Even experienced fishermen are capable of confounding the bull trout with its nobler brother of the streams.

To my utter confounding, Jason threw himself on the floor, kicking and beating it violently and letting out terrific yells.

Second, the people rejoice, and their pious faith seems to tend to the glory of God and the confounding of his enemies.