confounding
Example Sentences
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Further confounding the picture, there is uncertainty whether tariffs will remain in place.
From Barron's
The frantic warnings of a Cosmic Weatherman go unheard as winter, confoundingly, follows spring, and summer arrives as a double cataclysm of fire and floods.
Some of the research included was observational and may have been influenced by confounding factors.
From Science Daily
In their efforts, they illuminated our reality for what it is: contradictory and confounding, as hopeless as it is brimming with love and community.
From Salon
Because her oeuvre is both so vivid and confoundingly strange, the interpretive frame proposed by the curators often feels frustratingly timid.
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