confusingly

[kuhn-fyooz-ing-lee]

adverb

1. in a way that causes or tends to cause confusion

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Lee’s decision forbids OpenAI and its “officers, directors and employees from using the mark ‘Cameo,’ or any other mark that includes or is confusingly similar to ‘Cameo,’ ” according to her order.

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Though the statue was sitting cross-legged with a laptop, a plaque beneath it read, confusingly, “Always Standing for Freedom.”

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El Norte, confusingly, encompasses much of America’s lower Southwest—including parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas and lower California—and is tied culturally, in Mr. Woodard’s view, to parts of northern Mexico.

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“The Ten Year Affair” handles these twists with unfailing intelligence, capturing the sincere but confusingly improvised mores of marriage today.

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This all sounds great on paper, but what ends up on screen is a confusingly mixed bag.

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