Example Sentences

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The well-timed bets have confounded a market in which the price of oil has become a strategic pressure point for both the U.S. and Iran.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

She dished out eight assists, many of them on such adroit and anticipatory passes that they may have confounded her teammates enough to thwart the scoring opportunity.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 24, 2023

The sharp moves have confounded many analysts who predicted that prices would stay high, or even climb higher, slowing the transition to cleaner forms of transportation, an essential component of efforts to limit climate change.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2023

Rishi Sunak's government, like Liz Truss's administration, and Boris Johnson before, have had to confront a set of epic problems that have confounded governments across the west.

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2022

Several writers have confounded the two ladies, and Scribe and Legouv�, in their tragedy, Adrienne Lecouvreur, make the princess, and not the duchess, the rival and murderess of the heroine.

From Queens of the French Stage by Williams, H. Noel