But taken another way, it is perhaps even more confounding.

Iraq, the most confounding of places, never really comes into focus.

Now he must also be regarded as one of the most confounding.

It may thus be a confounding factor in the analysis.

And often it is those small details that can be the most confounding.

All subjects reported no history of disease or other confounding factors.

But the confounding thing about light reading is that so much of it sinks like lead.

He added that the investigators had tried to control for such confounding effects.

In this way he controlled a couple of potential confounding factors.

Another issue is the way in which experimental studies deal with potential confounding variables.

However, there are many confounding variables involved with this methodology.

The mouse is a young adult at 56 days old, free from the confounding factors of development.

It was the most confounding shield he had ever encountered.

For funny women in Hollywood, ambition can be a confounding thing.

Other positive and negative effects of coffee on health would be difficult confounding factors.

Historically, models have often ignored the confounding issue of space.

There were too many confounding factors to say much about any aspect of personality.

Such confounding questions played virtually no part in the debate over Proposition 209.

And then there are the confounding details of day-to-day operations.

The range of expression to be found here represents another confounding element.

Given this confounding environment, what's a teacher to do?

It's that the show simply needs a sense of giddiness to make it less confounding.

Then there was the confounding matter of property rights.

The acting, in a confounding diversity of styles, is less successful.

However, these studies are not conclusive due to many confounding variables.

But in the end he was confounded by the music.

And I'm going to confound you with them right now.

Took the child with her, and near confounded the whole thing.

What confounded me was how many of these people seemed to be old friends.

She did both and then was confounded as to what else to do with her life.

"I have almost never had a meeting here that so confounded me."

Gray had never met a woman who so confounded him.

But it was John who confounded the press: he could talk for hours about anything and everything.

He confounds us by speaking in a voice we understand but cannot place.

And while he had breath, he'd do all in his power to confound them.

The boy was trying his best to be helpful, but all these questions were confounding him.

The list of possible factors is both long and confounded with one another.

My friends, I will not be mixed up and confounded with others.

Confound it, if they come again, I'll be ready for them all right.

Perhaps she was able, somehow, to confound her own as well.

But their good intentions were to be confounded by history.

The numbers were easy; it was the words that had him confounded.

He should have been prepared for that, yet it had confounded him.

He is confounded when people question his heart and determination.

And so on, while confusion was made more confounded at every moment.

His parents were a bit confounded by their son's improvement.

"How do you know so confounded about a man's business?"

Or was she confounded by two separate parts of her life coming together?

"Confound it, what did I tell you about going up with any- body but me? "

I was confounded at his discourse, and knew not what answer to make him.