confound

Example Sentences

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Add to that complexities of water that confound searching, especially near the Arctic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 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

But again and again events pop up to complicate and confound any apparently linear path towards it.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2025

The forms of power that art creates, and the ones it so often leaves us without, confound and obsess me.

From Salon • Nov. 12, 2024

Either she doesn't want to confound the jury, or she has no more idea than I have why Sam Westing had to play two roles.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin