confound
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But adding Alphabet won’t save the Dow from its other shortcomings, and the blue-chip index’s enduring popularity continues to confound me.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
Trump is a political survivor who has demonstrated a remarkable ability to confound conventional wisdom.
From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2026
Customs and Border Protection deployed a counterdrone laser on what turned out to be party balloons, showed how they can confound air defenses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
Eli Carter and Martin Tobias suggest that a reversion to negative equity- bond correlations could confound expectations in 2026.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 22, 2025
My breath has power, to confound and control.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Talk of “plant sentience,” he argues, confounds sensing with sentience, which is generally taken to be synonymous with consciousness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
“We found that even after getting rid of these confounds, people still claimed early.”
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 16, 2026
She confounds them with her loud, childlike American energy, filling empty spaces with words, making jokes that don’t come off.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2025
“You're asking people in different age brackets, which confounds the entire thing, right?”
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2024
It confounds me when people don’t assist or even welcome those on their own team.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
The run-up has confounded efforts by Russia’s central bank to curb inflation, which is running at about 6% annually, above its 4% target.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Raw milk’s success confounded me: How had it gained such a foothold in this country, despite regular outbreaks of salmonella and E. coli, and even the discovery of bird flu in Raw Farm’s milk?
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
However, they confounded those expectations and spent the vast majority of the season in the top six.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
However, the combined treatment didn’t meet the overall survival target thanks to confounded data.
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026
He might as well be leading a confounded parade, for all the noise he was making.
From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman
When video of the incident began to spread, it was also confounding far beyond New York.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
What emerges is a book as entertaining as it is informative, a smartly crafted account that covers a broad swath of history’s most confounding puzzles and startling rediscoveries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
This is about as confounding as you can get.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
This approach was designed to reduce bias and account for potential confounding factors.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 6, 2026
The best chance of avoiding and confounding the beasts that lie below is to be as unpredictable as the sea and sky.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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