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"Another potential unmeasured confounder is the type of work, which may also influence a person's chronotype, health behaviors and diabetes risk," they wrote.

From Salon • Sep. 12, 2023

The long time lag between inception and commercialization can also be a major confounder.

From Nature • May 3, 2016

Daniel Day Lewis, of course, made a massive impact as punk rocker Johnny, a stereotype confounder who deserts his street-fighting confreres for Omar's charms.

From The Guardian • Apr. 8, 2013

Fitness is an important, and often unmeasured, confounder, and the growing pile of paradoxical evidence is forcing experts to re-evaluate its importance.

From New York Times • Sep. 17, 2012

He has written in an essay: "Tragic art, passionate art, ... the confounder of understanding, moves us by setting us to reverie, by alluring us almost to the intensity of trance."

From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Kilmer, Joyce