confound
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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
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
He kicked, pounded, twisted, pushed, using his lack of size to confound and exasperate Elisha, whose damp fists, joined at the small of John’s back, soon slipped.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
Vocabulary lists containing confound
100 SAT words Beginning with "C"
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"Common Sense," Vocabulary from the pamphlet
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