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

Or later, as he sought photographic evidence of the Mars canals: “We must secure some canals to confound the skeptics” — which, today, carries eerie echoes of “Find me the votes.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025

That one inexplicable blip at Twickenham will confound experts for the rest of time.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2025

“Tell me where you feel it and I’ll plot a course for us that will confound its pursuit.”

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman