- present participle of confound.
confounding
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It’s a confounding and destabilizing experience for overachieving women used to being on top of every detail.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
This is about as confounding as you can get.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
It’s more like a schematic of a confounding investigation and a sympathetic survey of a devastated emotional landscape.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Because Golding’s account of his death was so deliberately confounding, I wasn’t sure what happened.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
Those include confounding effects of natural variation in additional variables besides the one of interest, as well as problems in inferring chains of causation from observed correlations between variables.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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