confound
Example Sentences
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Further confounding the picture, there is uncertainty whether tariffs will remain in place.
From Barron's
Her disappearance captivated and confounded true crime watchers around the nation as FBI investigators and armchair detectives alike tried to solve the puzzle of what happened to Melodee.
From Los Angeles Times
The frantic warnings of a Cosmic Weatherman go unheard as winter, confoundingly, follows spring, and summer arrives as a double cataclysm of fire and floods.
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
