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The frantic warnings of a Cosmic Weatherman go unheard as winter, confoundingly, follows spring, and summer arrives as a double cataclysm of fire and floods.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

There exists a different version of pyramid advice for the confoundingly complicated Cronin.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2025

In response to a $104 million budget hole and waning enrollment, Seattle Public Schools has, confoundingly, made little effort to burnish its standout gems and entice families back.

From Seattle Times • May 17, 2024

And the condition manifests in confoundingly different ways.

From Scientific American • Aug. 16, 2023

An exceedingly and confoundingly perplexing jumble of a school, in fact, where black spirits and grey, red spirits and white, jumbled jumbled jumbled jumbled, jumbled every night.

From Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles