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Samuel Scarpino, a professor at Northeastern University who studies infectious diseases, said that it can be very difficult, even in a sophisticated model, to separate all of the confounding factors that could be at play, like geography.

The increase in recognition of autism spectrum disorders in Western countries continues to confound and confuse.

Yet, as a whole, the events that transpired between 1900 and 2000 B.C.E. still manage to confound the contemporary imagination.

He may be an exception, but his example proves that grace can confound the expectations and machinations of curial politics.

To complicate and confound matters further, North Korea has done more than simply throw grenades.

To confound the problem, there has not been a UN human rights monitor in Iran since 2002.

Indeed the words ‘confound the fellow’ were in the minds of the three men.

We have Pezizæ with a subiculum in the section Tapesia, but the veriest tyro would not confound them with species of Parmelia.

Everything there assumes gigantic proportions, which startle the imagination and confound the reason.

We should be indignant: we should say, confound their impudence: we should turn them out of doors if they did.

There are many persons who confound this with the third theatre, erected by Douglas.