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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

There’s little airtight data on the fathering brain; cohorts are small; some results await replication while others confound analysis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

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 ● Dec. 9, 2025

Mensah’s Preservation Alliance team is composed of misfits, including David Dastmalchian’s Gurathin and Sabrina Wu’s Pin-Lee, who often confound Murderbot’s expectations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2025

My breath has power, to confound and control.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

Her dry sense of humor at times confounds those around her.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

“We found that even after getting rid of these confounds, people still claimed early.”

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 16, 2026

“You're asking people in different age brackets, which confounds the entire thing, right?”

From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2024

Increased lactate levels and reduced pH in postmortem brains of schizophrenics: medication confounds.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 26, 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

“Whatever we do in Iran, it seems, there is a price to pay,” says Ms. Jabarzadegan, a reluctant mediator in a messy case, who is genuinely confounded by the family.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

It was brought low by market moves that confounded their projections.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 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

The East Yorkshire side have confounded expectations, a transfer embargo, and the off-field drama surrounding Southampton and Spygate, to secure a remarkable promotion.

From BBC ● May 23, 2026

We see master and slave alike, confounded at the celerity and ineluctability of our approach, calling warnings— messengers sent on horseback, riding no faster than our progress, posting along ridges, bent close upon their steeds.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

It’s more like a schematic of a confounding investigation and a sympathetic survey of a devastated emotional landscape.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 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

But when the researchers took into account confounding factors such as a family history of neurodevelopmental disorders or mothers’ preexisting mental health conditions, the correlation disappeared.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 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