verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
confound sb's expectations (= be different to what someone expected, in a way that surprises or confuses them )
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The play totally confounds the audience's expectations.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
experts
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Thus did ordinary children confound the experts .
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The reports have puzzled and confounded some experts .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Dan's speedy recovery confounded the medical experts.
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Even travel agents are confounded by the logic of airline ticket pricing.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He has utilized the pictorial logic of the photograph to confound rather than to clarify space.
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Henry Kissinger was also confounded and frustrated by the Communists during his secret negotiations with them.
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I think they are absolutely confounding.
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Parental education will be confounded with social class and it is therefore important to consider them jointly.
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The close score after 12 games confounds pre-match predictions that Kasparov would win this time by a large margin.
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The simple memory span measure confounds these variables.
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The traditional monument has tended to confound gender politics.