- present participle of confound.
confounding
Example Sentences
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Confounding this already problematic directive is that most TFU followers are women and identify as heterosexual.
From Salon • Nov. 11, 2023
Confounding the two by conceding she is an imaginary historian, she proclaims at the outset: “I myself am a daughter of Mingheria.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2022
Confounding the picture is evidence that coffee drinking and smoking are protective against Parkinson’s, although experts don’t know why, and these habits don’t seem related to the gender gap, they say.
From Washington Post • Jul. 2, 2021
Confounding the pejorative-or-not question that surrounds the word is its new proximity to the idea of representation.
From New York Times • Jan. 8, 2019
Then shall be roaring and warring And ferment of sea and firth, Ocean, in turmoil upboiling, Confounding each bound of earth.
From A Celtic Psaltery by Graves, Alfred Perceval