confusion

Example Sentences

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Fragmenting this system with alternative methodologies creates confusion rather than clarity.

From The Wall Street Journal

He thought of what his grandfather would say when he returned to find both boy and griffin gone; of his confusion and anger.

From Literature

Fleetwood’s face deepens from pink to plum while the ambassador’s brow knits with confusion.

From Literature

I thought of what the travel writer Aatish Taseer wrote in his book, “A Return to Self,” about revisiting Istanbul, “the perfectly preserved repository of the hopes, ambitions and confusions of my twenty-five-year-old self.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The kid must read the confusion on my face because he says: “Ray. Ray Delgado.”

From Literature