How to Use confound in a Sentence
confound
verb
- The success of the show confounded critics.
- The school's team confounded all predictions and won the game.
- The strategy confounded our opponents.
- The murder case has confounded investigators.
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Things like the sun, as well as the dark, seem to confound it.
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Kevin T. Dugan,
Fortune,
21 Sep. 2021
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Nez knew the code was meant to help confound the enemy.
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Betty Reid,
azcentral,
29 Aug. 2019
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That’s the Beach Boys for you: confounding until the end.
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Will Ainsley,
SPIN,
24 May 2024
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The league’s worst run defense gets worse: The Ravens’ run game was sure to confound the Cowboys.
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Jori Epstein,
USA TODAY,
9 Dec. 2020
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The podcast delves into the confounding details of the killing.
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Liam Quinn,
Peoplemag,
24 Aug. 2023
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What’s confounding, though, is the Bears have been unable to run the ball through two games.
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Brad Biggs,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Sep. 2024
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The second quarter was more of the same, as the Parkville zones and traps continued to confound Lansdowne.
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Mike Frainie,
Baltimore Sun,
6 Jan. 2024
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One of Trump’s great skills has been to confound his opponents.
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Susan B. Glasser,
The New Yorker,
14 June 2019
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Ohio State managed to confound Illinois big man Cockburn for most of the game.
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cleveland,
16 Jan. 2021
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But that’s why these races confound and excite us year after year.
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Childs Walker,
baltimoresun.com,
5 Sep. 2020
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White charged into the box to receive a pass, paused for half a second to confound Naeher and then tapped the ball into the left side of the net.
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Alicia Delgallo,
Pro Soccer USA,
4 July 2019
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Yet, his seeming reluctance to run the ball at times can confound.
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Edgar Thompson,
Orlando Sentinel,
23 Nov. 2022
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And this might confound your expectations, but the diesel is smoother than the gas engine.
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Ezra Dyer,
Popular Mechanics,
8 Sep. 2019
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How that driver managed to miss Lewis confounds him, James said.
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Tonya Alanez,
sun-sentinel.com,
11 Nov. 2019
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The concept of a Cabbage Patch Kid also confounded the artist.
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Ashley Boucher,
PEOPLE.com,
2 Dec. 2019
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To confound matters, an Indy player was sent off with a red card in three of the four losses.
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Kevin Johnston,
Indianapolis Star,
6 Oct. 2019
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Valenzuela would confound batters with the pitch throughout his 17-year career in the big leagues.
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Los Angeles Times,
2 July 2021
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The Chiefs defense confounded by the Niners’ misdirection much of the game got stingy and forced a three-and-out.
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Washington Post,
3 Feb. 2020
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Alana shed disturbing light on the way love has come to confound the erotic bond of a couple who met on a fetish app.
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Los Angeles Times,
17 Feb. 2022
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All three picked similar scores, but two took the Hoosiers to once again confound those who are betting on the Buckeyes.
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Nathan Baird,
cleveland,
20 Nov. 2020
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And if a Lambo's quirks confound a newbie, Borkert says that's a feature, not a bug.
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Elana Scherr,
Car and Driver,
5 Sep. 2020
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But viewed on its own, simply in the context of the pilot, the subplot is a little confounding.
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John Russell,
Peoplemag,
19 Sep. 2024
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The coronavirus will adapt and confound efforts to contain it.
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Zachary B. Wolf,
CNN,
15 Dec. 2021
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Whether Labour can confound the polls and win an outright majority is yet to be seen.
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Daniel Fitzpatrick,
Quartz,
26 Nov. 2019
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Many observers are confounded by voters’ willingness to roll the dice and reelect the intemperate Donald Trump as president.
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Kori Schake,
Foreign Affairs,
8 Nov. 2024
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Watch on Deadline Cuarón’s confounding seven-part series titled Disclaimer from Apple+ is fomenting debate this week, having been greeted equally with praise and second-guessing.
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Peter Bart,
Deadline,
25 Oct. 2024
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