confound
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But adding Alphabet won’t save the Dow from its other shortcomings, and the blue-chip index’s enduring popularity continues to confound me.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
“The launch of the Luce, Ferrari’s first electric car, on 25 May may well confound some sceptics as well.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 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
I needed to confound them with my intelligence.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
“We found that even after getting rid of these confounds, people still claimed early.”
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 16, 2026
“To be dead honest it confounds me,” said Jillian Michaels, the trainer turned podcaster, famous for her role on the reality TV show “Biggest Loser.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
“You're asking people in different age brackets, which confounds the entire thing, right?”
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2024
Even in this much more complex environment, where the pulsations of blood vessels and the movement of breathing provide additional confounds, the mosTF scope still achieved a four-fold better signal-to-background ratio.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2024
It confounds me when people don’t assist or even welcome those on their own team.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
Raw milk’s success confounded me: How had it gained such a foothold in this country, despite regular outbreaks of salmonella and E. coli, and even the discovery of bird flu in Raw Farm’s milk?
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
However, they confounded those expectations and spent the vast majority of the season in the top six.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
The well-timed bets have confounded a market in which the price of oil has become a strategic pressure point for both the U.S. and Iran.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
However, the combined treatment didn’t meet the overall survival target thanks to confounded data.
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026
This original sin against my family told whenever anyone addressed me in Spanish and I responded, confounded.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
This approach was designed to reduce bias and account for potential confounding factors.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 6, 2026
The Canadian study did not contain major errors as Wakefield’s paper did, though some critics argued at the time that it didn’t sufficiently control for confounding factors such as maternal depression.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
Donald Trump trades stocks at a confounding rate, Everlane is reportedly sold to Shein, and online media is succumbing to bots.
From Slate ● May 23, 2026
Eli An analyst noted thin details and potential confounding factors.
From Barron's ● May 4, 2026
Immoral logic seemed to be confounding him at every turn.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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