Marian Keyes

When I first met my husband, he had a very good job - company car, pension plan, grudging respect from his staff - the lot. I, on the other hand, was badly paid and devoid of ambition. Then I had a couple of books published and confounded all expectations by starting to earn more than he did.

Irish Writer

Shaun Tan

You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you're like an immigrant to your own world. You don't have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.

Australian Artist

Giraldus Cambrensis

Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.

Welsh Clergyman

Homer

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Greek Poet

Genesis P-Orridge

If we confound and break up the proposed unfolding the world impresses upon us, we can give ourselves the space to consider what we want to be as a species.

English Musician

Henry Miller

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

American Author

Zoe Lister-Jones

In my view, relationship movies never get old because humanity will never not be confounded by their relationships.

American Actress

Kit Williams

You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.

Author

Henry Wotton

Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.

English Author

Francis of Assisi

Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.

Italian Saint

Use 'confound' when someone acts against what others predict or foresee.

Unexpected Behavior

Conveys a strong and often immediate feeling of surprise or disbelief.

Sudden Surprise

Often used in scientific contexts where precision is crucial, and elements combine indistinctly.

Blend Thoroughly

In research or discussion, it's important to avoid confounding to maintain clear distinctions.

Clarity Matters

Highlights that 'confound' can mean making a problem harder to solve or grasp.

Complicates Understanding

Usually implies unintended complexity, not someone deliberately making things harder.

Not Intentional

Use it in a historical or dramatic context to describe a surprising victory.

Unexpected Triumph

Most suitable for tales or literary works where old-fashioned diction is desired.

Archaic Heroics

Indicates the act of showing that someone's idea or argument is incorrect.

Proof of Error

Suggests that real, concrete evidence or reasoning has to be used to confound a claim.

Evidence-Based

 a shipwreck they form an integral part of our national identity it's one of the Bermudas most iconic shipwrecks there's actually two shipwrecks laid on top of each other you have the constellation that came afterwards in the Montana the debris from the constellation is washed right through the center of this shipwreck so you have a very confounding

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 on school tests later in their lives. And not just tests of reading, but tests of spelling and maths as well. This study tried to control for all the confounding factors, so it looked at children who were equally intelligent and from the same social-class background, so it seemed as if it was the reading which really helped those children

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 So this is what we call a "confounded design." Two things are happening at the same time. It's branded versus generic, but it's doing nothing versus doing something. So I said, "Why don't we switch it? Why don't we send people a letter and say, 'We're switching you to generics. You don't need to do anything.

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 Wolverine and it's a great scat tons of hair and they're in bone but the really confounding thing is this probably can't see it this red blob in here that was attached to the scat and we're just left to speculate on what that is we've got Jason with us who is a world-renowned

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 Oftentimes, forms of speech exist on a kind of linguistic continuum where they overlap with others, and the differences between them are gradual— not clear cut. And that’s the confounding beauty of the dynamic, diverse, and dazzling universe of human communication.

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 what squeaks and what doesn't, what to explore and what to ignore. Let me show you another example now, this time about a problem of causal reasoning. And it starts with a problem of confounded evidence that all of us have, which is that we are part of the world.

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 or perhaps knock some competitors out of the market. Nor can companies agree to do certain things, for example raise the prices of their unhealthy products, because that would violate competition law, as we've established. So our governments should not confound

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 It would probably be easier for parents to do their new roles if they knew what they were preparing their kids for. This is yet another thing that makes modern parenting so very confounding. We have no clue what portion our wisdom, if any,

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 sometimes I think I confound them. My wife's loveliness almost consumes me. My passion for her goes beyond reasonable bounds. When we make love, her holding me everywhere all around me,

C.K. Williams: Poetry...

 you conform to the host nation's stereotype of you, of being feckless, work-shy, destined for a life of crime. You are being watched, so confound their expectations of you.

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