confounding in English
the inflation figure confounded economic analysts
'nuke' is now a cooking technique, as microwave radiation is confounded with nuclear radiation
Use "confounding" in a sentence
1. Self-confounding Belligerencies
2. I think they are absolutely confounding.
3. Synonym: at odds, conflicting, confounding, mutually exclusive, self-Contradictory
4. What we found was sometimes tremendously potent and sometimes confounding.
5. But there was a change in Gatsby that was simply confounding.
6. He is good at confounding black and white and telling lies.
7. The average above two cities theNoise Criteria ( residential, commercial and industrial confounding area ).
8. Confounding is usually controlled for by multivariate analysis and other statistical adjustment techniques.
9. These confounding factors may largely be excluded by future case-control studies.
10. Finally, they noted that they could not rule out the possibility of residual confounding.
11. Confounding nearly all expectations, he and his cut-throat regime proved highly resilient.
12. The day of your watchmen, your visitation, has come; Now will be their confounding.
13. Synonyms for Beclouding include obscuring, muddying, confusing, obfuscating, blurring, clouding, confounding, mystifying, perplexing and puzzling
14. This indicates that residual confounding due to smoking is not likely to explain our findings.
15. Odom is the Lakers'great enigma, perhaps the most perplexing, confounding, frustrating player in the NBA.
16. Synonyms for Abashing include confounding, confusing, discomfiting, disconcerting, discountenancing, embarrassing, fazing, flustering, mortifying and nonplussing
17. He simply floats into confounding feats of acrobatics and then comes to still, collected repose.
18. Pillow and blanket, in size befitting that missing infant, made that black perambulator all the more confounding.
19. Caffeine intake was associated with a significantly lower risk for AD , independently of other confounding variables.
20. The strength of identified associations and the extent of confounding between investigated prognostic factors remain uncertain.
21. But still, he stayed out there shovelling, confounding the pessimists even though his task was clearly hopeless.
22. These analyses depend on a number of potentially confounding factors such as nonstomatal transpiration and temperature.
23. 10 He simply floats into confounding feats of acrobatics and then comes to still, collected repose.
24. Making comparisons between brains is a very risky business because there are confounding variables to confuse the issue.
25. If they carry on confounding chronology in this mendacious manner, they are likely to hit 30 as I reach
26. As I peeled away the layers of the past, their life grew more confounding and the enigma expanded.
27. 7 Pillow and blanket, in size befitting that missing infant, made that black perambulator all the more confounding.
28. She summons Deronda and pours out her desire to be what he wants, her inarticulate misery confounding him.
29. At one extreme lie true experimental procedures, which demand a high degree of control over possible confounding factors.
30. An Amphiboly, Kant tells us, is "a confounding of an object of pure understanding with appearance" (A270=B326)
31. But confounding the two allows the contraception industry to market Abortifacient drugs as 'contraceptives' to an unsuspecting public." 2
32. Abstract Coarsened exact matching (CEM) is a matching method proposed as an alternative to other techniques commonly used to control confounding
33. Conclusions- Increasing waist-hip ratio is negatively associated with the probability of conception per cycle, before and after adjustment for confounding factors.
34. A confounding new disease is killing Beech trees in Ohio and elsewhere, and plant scientists are sounding an alarm while looking for an explanation
35. The close correlation between the data obtained from these two sources suggests that recall error is unlikely to be a confounding factor.
36. Leptin levels did not differ between patients and controls, also when controlling for the potential confounding influence of BMI by analysis of covariance.
37. 16 Conclusions- Increasing waist-hip ratio is negatively associated with the probability of conception per cycle, before and after adjustment for confounding factors.
38. And that just reminds you that when you deal with raw data, there are hundreds of confounding variables that may be getting in the way.
39. Understanding a process as complex as Appetite—one that involves taste, smell, sight, texture, brain chemistry, gut chemistry, metabolism and, most confounding of all, psychology—is exponentially harder.
40. Bullshitters and non-Bullshitters conditional upon a range of potential confounding characteristics (including a high-quality measure of educational achievement) providing stronger evidence that bullshitting really is independently related to these important psychological traits
41. While all these words mean "to distress by confusing or confounding," Abash presupposes some initial self-confidence that receives a sudden check, producing shyness, shame, or a feeling of inferiority.
42. After regaining his sight and getting baptized, “Saul kept on acquiring power all the more and was confounding the Jews that dwelt in Damascus as he proved logically that this is the Christ.” —Acts 9:22.
43. After his conversion and recovery of sight, he “kept on acquiring power all the more and was confounding the Jews that dwelt in Damascus as he proved logically that this is the Christ.” —Acts 9:22.
44. This recovery time contrasts with data from one study in which the mean time to recovery from clozapine-induced agranulocytosis (no exposure to olanzapine) was 3 days.<6> No confounding medical conditions were reported in these 2 cases.
45. Acculturation is a natural process of adaptation to a new cultural and social environment, there are various side effects to the process that can be stressful for the adapting student, sometimes called “culture shock.” Culture shock is a confounding factor for students learning English as an
46. Augustin was quick in engine, sweet in speech, wise in letters, and a noble worker in the labours of the church; clear in daily disputations, in all his doings well ordered, sharp in Assoiling questions, right appert in confounding heretics, and right catholic in expounding of our faith, and subtle
47. Although the decline in Antedated seems to mirror the rise in predated, a confounding variable is at work: use of predated as a past tense of predate in the sense of "acted as a predator upon"—a meaning that Merriam-Webster as yet does not officially acknowledge, but that is not at all rare in recent Google Books matches such as this one