- present participle of confound.
confounding
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Which is why Italy’s decadeslong failure to produce a world champion driver had always felt so confounding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
When video of the incident began to spread, it was also confounding far beyond New York.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
This is about as confounding as you can get.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
This approach was designed to reduce bias and account for potential confounding factors.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 6, 2026
My willingness to eat confused and annoyed the staff, confounding their efforts to understand what I was doing there.
From "How I Live Now" by Meg Rosoff
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