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These confusing results led the team to suspect that the two types of microglia might work in opposite directions.

Former England captain Alan Shearer said some of the phraseology was confusing and has called for change: "Proximity... obvious position... not in an obvious position... natural," he said.

A credit default swap was confusing mainly because it wasn’t really a swap at all.

“Asking people about whether they looked for work in the four weeks prior to eight weeks ago is going to be confusing,” said Jefferies’s chief U.S. economist, Thomas Simons.

“Asking people about whether they looked for work in the four weeks prior to eight weeks ago is going to be confusing,” said chief U.S. economist Thomas Simons of Jefferies.