confound
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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
Eli Carter and Martin Tobias suggest that a reversion to negative equity- bond correlations could confound expectations in 2026.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 22, 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
While the strikers can look frail, their willingness to suffer is meant to confound the state and emphasize their unshakeable commitment to a cause.
From Salon • May 1, 2025
Of course, the more she wandered the station, the more likely she’d be seen, but it was worth the risk to confound the DNA detectors and send her pursuers on a wild-goose chase.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
Vocabulary lists containing confound
100 SAT words Beginning with "C"
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