- present participle of confound.
confounding
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What emerges is a book as entertaining as it is informative, a smartly crafted account that covers a broad swath of history’s most confounding puzzles and startling rediscoveries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
A man of confounding contradictions, Bakker died Monday, his wife announced in a statement on his Instagram account.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 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
Their commitment to their faith is confounding a long-held assumption that, like earlier generations of Baptists or Pentecostals, prosperous evangelicals would abandon their religious ties or trade them for membership in establishment churches.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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