confound

In a sentence

Six example sentences with confound, each labelled with its topic.

• The tiny nation's growth confounded every forecaster who had predicted a decade of stagnation after the shipyards closed.

  Economics

• The rookie confounded the tournament favorites by winning with a deck everyone had dismissed as unplayable two months earlier.

  Gaming

• The patient's recovery confounded the ward, since every chart had suggested she would need another month in bed.

  Medicine

• The eighth seed confounded every bracket in the office by winning three road games in a single week.

  Basketball

• The stock's rally confounded the analysts who had rated it a sell, and three of them reversed within a month.

  Finance

• The result confounded the pollsters, whose final survey had shown the incumbent ahead by twelve points.

  Politics

Found in these word lists

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More Academic words

• underlie
• enormity
• aberrant
• links
• stipulate
• constraining
• maximising
• deriving
• cogent
• precipitate
• repudiate
• enumerate