- present participle of confound.
confounding
Example Sentences
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In the past week alone, he has written about the head-scratching Philadelphia Phillies and the utterly confounding Chandler Simpson of the Tampa Bay Rays.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
This is about as confounding as you can get.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
Cleveland Guardians: Jo Adell didn’t come off the IL, but the addition of the former confounding Angels prospect in an August salary dump has bolstered the Guardians’ outfield — long a problem area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
For those who know of exorcisms primarily from horror movies, the news of a professional exorcist in the nation’s capital causing drama may have been a bit confounding.
From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2026
In fact, they had encountered the same wave-particle duality of light that was confounding their elders in physics.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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