How To Use Confounding In A Sentence

  • These analyses depend on a number of potentially confounding factors such as nonstomatal transpiration and temperature.
  • Thus residual confounding could not be completely excluded, and the findings could not assign causality.
  • Where the god and the idolon were most nearly one there was least danger of confounding them. Surprised by Joy
  • On one occasion, in hospital after an operation, Pegg awoke from his anaesthetically induced coma an hour too early, confounding doctors until it was realised he must have overheard a fellow patient on the ward watching The Guardian World News
  • One explanation for these differences is confounding by poorly measured or unmeasured risk factors that varied between communities.
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  • He could also be volatile, pettish and confounding.
  • As far as skulls are concerned, there is one confounding variable: climate.
  • Pillow and blanket, in size befitting that missing infant, made that black perambulator all the more confounding.
  • We all know it when we see it but teachers and politicians have found it confoundingly hard to reproduce. Times, Sunday Times
  • Consideration of how straight- and contracting-stemmed points might have been hafted is initially confounding.
  • The NY Times' Haggler column tackled the confounding process of buying mattresses recently, with the help of Consumer Reports, which stated plainly: "Shopping for a mattress can be a nightmare.
  • The Arians were accused of confounding personal attributes (like, say, the unbegottenness of the Father alone) with natural attributes (like, say, the uncreatedness of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit alike). Energetic Procession
  • Conclusions- Increasing waist-hip ratio is negatively associated with the probability of conception per cycle, before and after adjustment for confounding factors.
  • Gangs of criminals are confounding expectations by helping to reduce the fear of crime through making their neighbourhoods a safer place.
  • _ -- In this kind of paraphasia in adults the cause is a lack of attention; therefore purely central concentration is wanting, or one fails to "collect himself"; there is distraction, hence the unintentional, frequently unconscious, confounding of words similar in sound or connected merely by remote, often dim, reminiscences. The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX.
  • The close correlation between the data obtained from these two sources suggests that recall error is unlikely to be a confounding factor.
  • Dutch brick went round the world as ballast in trading ships, confounding its origins as a local, geologically dependent material.
  • Making comparisons between brains is a very risky business because there are confounding variables to confuse the issue.
  • Roman empire! how countless the nations which swarm forth, in mingling and indistinct hordes, constantly changing the geographical limits — incessantly confounding the natural boundaries! The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Making comparisons between brains is a very risky business because there are confounding variables to confuse the issue.
  • It also offered the benefit of controlling for potential confounding effects of conglomerate firms.
  • As the possibility of critical engagement hangs in the balance, he sits at the bar, unvanquished, formulating the next, undoubtedly entertaining, undoubtedly confounding, postproduction for our consumption.
  • The small sample size was obviously a confounding factor in interpreting the results.
  • Instead what you get is something inventive and of the moment - they play tunes from their CD's, but they also like mixing stuff up and confounding expectations.
  • It implies a confusion of ideas, confounding physical power which is almighty, and moral power, which is suasory and resistible. The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election
  • This difference was significant, even in the rigorous statistical analysis for the cluster level design, controlling for confounding variables.
  • We reduced confounding variables by using a randomised crossover trial and the same browser for searching both schemes.
  • This amazing, confounding, admirable, amiable beauty, [4817] than which in all nature's treasure (saith Isocrates) there is nothing so majestical and sacred, nothing so divine, lovely, precious, Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Not that maximal rigor is needed to establish your basic point here, but nowadays such allometric comparisons are typically done by regressing the variable that you are interested in (brain size) on the confounding variable (body size) and then examining the residuals instead of looking purely at proportions. Fun with hominin brain size as a percentage of body mass - The Panda's Thumb
  • You shall go to the theatre if you want to," he remarked at last, in that sweet, protecting way peculiar to his class from the habitual confounding of _can, shall_ and _will_, and that put us into good humor directly. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875
  • We were not able to adjust for the possible confounding effect of body weight as this information has not been collected.
  • Potential confounding by parental educational status, parental smoking, sibship size, and housing style, and interactions with site of residence, were also explored.
  • Most of Batuman's chapters describe some bizarre trek she gruelingly undertook (easily financed by gullible graduate funders), yet she confoundingly, incongruously speaks against this very form of research early in the book, thus, nothing or everything adding up in the end: The Possessed : Academics Going to the Trades
  • Also confounding the picture is the fact that many clock- and watch-makers supplemented their income by making silver and jewelry or importing goods.
  • This information was essential in permitting an accurate estimation of the safety thresholds of inhaled corticosteroid use and in eliminating confounding by use of oral corticosteroids.
  • Kilcummin were confounding the critics as they played with dash and flair, first to every ball as they attacked in waves.
  • Incessant and intrusive editing, numerous jump- and cross-cuts and confounding time shifts, work to disorient the viewer.
  • And it features clown cars full of Gucci clad consultants throwing bright shiny confounding pies in the face of the opposition, the voters, and anybody flashing his minicam in the general vicinity.
  • Nowhere has he been more successful at confounding expectations — in a good way — than in the main theater, where the digital-like wire grid motif takes on folds, crimps and chamfered edges, making the truly blue space feel comfortably snug although being inside a quilted Chanel bag also comes to mind and ready-made for at least a double feature. Designed to Evoke the Future of Filmmaking...
  • More importantly, it was the confounding of all sceptics. Times, Sunday Times
  • Conclusions- Increasing waist-hip ratio is negatively associated with the probability of conception per cycle, before and after adjustment for confounding factors.
  • He may then lapse into overs of dross, with the memory of the potential remaining, a tad confoundingly. Times, Sunday Times
  • The data extraction sheet attempted to collate confounding variables (eg, environmental issues), but no data were provided in the trial reports.
  • Adjustment had little impact on measures of association, but confounding by unmeasured factors cannot be ruled out.
  • How we got to this confoundingly complex point in gender relations is actually quite simple. Emily Bracken: Romantic Comedies Are Dying Because Romance Is Dead
  • ' That ' s because French law — that ever-confounding instrument — allows cru producers to leave the word Beaujolais off their label altogether, and some winemakers have regarded its absence as an advantage. Quality Beaujolais: It
  • The estimates were adjusted for 16 major confounding factors.
  • Clinical history can be unreliable as a diagnostic indicator of latex allergy because of confounding variables.
  • A system so boondoggled in the confounding complexity that it is near inscrutable? The Politics of Politics
  • Albert V) say if he finds a writer confounding _Catherine_ and _Thomas_ Macaulay as "the celebrated author of the great Whig History of England" -- a confusion hardly worse than that of the two Eachards -- for Catherine, though now forgotten by an ungrateful public, made quite as much noise in her day as Thomas does in ours. Famous Reviews
  • This matters to the outside world because Ahmadinejad has been as adept in stonewalling inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency as he has been in confounding journalists. Iran's Ahmadinejad, Information Pariah
  • Confounding those who had marked him down as a Eurosceptic, he declared: ‘I believe in Europe as a political project.’
  • Perhaps the anti-gambling lobby group has a person on the inside, confounding design plans, adding irrelevant bells, whistles and flashing lights.
  • The close correlation between the data obtained from these two sources suggests that recall error is unlikely to be a confounding factor.
  • Heere shame, the fretting canker of the mind, That fiers the face with fuell from the hart, Fearing his weapons weakenes, eft assigned To desperate hardines his confounding dart, And now the The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • Why, she's confounding our expectations once again, playing with our notions of gender and roles!
  • To be sure, one can arrive late and leave early, confounding the schedule's disciplining force.
  • Study designs with community comparisons must adequately control for potential confounding factors.
  • Dr Thomas Vassiliades (Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA), who voted against recommending approval, said that while the statistical analysis showed the device to be equivalent to warfarin therapy, "there were too many confounding variables, such as antiplatelet therapy, to approve. TheHeart.org
  • He writes in a confounding way that always makes me end up thinking that he is a raving buffoon or a extraordinarily perceptive genius.
  • Several healthy cultures (Kuna, Kitavans, Tokelauans, the original Maori eating lots of kumara) have a diet high in starchy tubers (but also moderately high in animal protein and fat, though, which might be confounding.) Low-carb battles in your brain | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
  • But what's confounding me is how it managed to get through a dry cleaner and still be there.
  • But it's a confoundingly original -- and often funny -- nightmare, a one-of-a-kind "found object" that captures an underbelly of America you never dreamed existed -- or exists only in the fevered imagination of its creator. Splendors and Challenges at the New York Film Festival
  • He still enjoys confounding expectations, corrupting the stereotype of the ageing thesp.
  • More importantly, it was the confounding of all sceptics. Times, Sunday Times
  • We have a most jolly fellow for a postman and here of late I've been confounding and delighting him.
  • Taking a script written by three first-timers, Harlin has crafted an expectation-confounding descent into dark hearts and the supernatural deviltry at which its title hints.
  • : One of the more confounding aspects to the current crisis is the repeating confusion of traditional terms of "churchmanship" for the current divisions of theology. Stand Firm
  • It would be confoundingly tacky if a talking horse was able to wrangle all of Alan Harper's commitment issues with women while staving off countless hours of glue jokes and rekindling a strictly sexual relationship with a now septuagenarian Secretariat. Hulu.com: Retaining the Sheen: The Worst Possible Two and a Half Men Replacements
  • Despite our exclusion criteria, other confounding influences may have occurred as a result of inapparent inflammatory disease.
  • Chicks and water retention is a hellish confounding business. Cheeseburger Gothic » Burger Lite 5 March
  • It was a low-key event, confounding expectations of gossip columnists dispatched to observe the dirt.
  • Oracle doctrine of the fathers, -- there is a still more flagrant argument against the fathers, which it is perfectly confounding to find both them and their confuter overlooking. Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 1
  • The housing market is confounding expectations by growing steadily, the country's leading building society said on Tuesday.
  • The longer you think about them, the more confoundingly complex they feel. Times, Sunday Times
  • I dwell on these particulars because, in confounding the different periods of the riches and poverty of the gold-washings of Brazil, it is still affirmed in works treating of the commerce of the precious metals, that a quantity of gold equivalent to four millions of piastres (5800 kilogrammes of gold*) flows into Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3
  • Conclusions- Increasing waist-hip ratio is negatively associated with the probability of conception per cycle, before and after adjustment for confounding factors.
  • A confounding climax that disorients the viewer, and not in a good way. The House of the Devil (2009)
  • After looking at the criminal justice system for many, many years that is what is confounding me tonight.
  • Then his self-hate, his aversion for Gladys, his perpetual toying with his own feelings resulted in a sudden, confoundingly luminous idea. THE OUTSIDER
  • The photographs are both stunning and confounding in their simplicity and in the commonalities that they share.
  • Despite her cheerful insistence that she's in a "really good place in my life," after several drinks it becomes clear that she's miserable, resentful and chronically, confoundingly, unfairly alone. Somewhere between settled and unsettling
  • World crude oil prices have not risen with ‘free market’ supply and demand, confounding all the prophets of doom or boom.
  • Pathogens continually evolve confounding the ability of the immune system to recognize them.
  • The comet, tailless and misshapen, appeared as expected in 1839 and 1846, before vanishing, confounding astronomers who waited patiently in 1852, 1859 and 1866.
  • Then followed the confusing and confounding impressions of the landing, where the great nation, compelled by experience, seems to guard itself against the instreaming invasion of undesired elements, and investigates and selects with humiliating, apparently heartless strictness, as though we were animals to be examined. The Bride of Dreams
  • Even a visit from Washington by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood was a confoundingly news-free event. 2010 Detroit Auto Show: Attendance off with sales
  • Precipitation of a peptide in the top agar with subsequent release of amino acids can also lead to confounding results.
  • They controlled for potentially confounding factors such as birthweight, lead exposure and breastfeeding. WebWire | Recent Headlines
  • His second solo album is a full-blown prog epic that is equally confounding and captivating.
  • Exposed subjects could not be pretested for normality or prescreened for confounding diseases or exposures to other agents; but neither factor was found at the time of study.
  • Matching is a traditional approach to control for potential confounding in epidemiology.
  • Most politicians could not long survive such confounding contrariness.
  • Secondly, by his passion for "popular" renderings of abstruse and difficult subjects, by confounding the hastiest rechauffe of scientific truisms with the slowly-matured conceptions of the original thinker, he retards true culture and lessens the possible amount of really abiding work. The Vice of Reading
  • Conclusions- Increasing waist-hip ratio is negatively associated with the probability of conception per cycle, before and after adjustment for confounding factors.
  • In addition, the probability of the results being distorted by confounding factors has not been adequately addressed.
  • The drop in EU output accelerated sharply in the first quarter, confounding official and market optimism.
  • Artificial insemination under controlled conditions would eliminate confounding factors such as variations in coital frequency or in sperm quality. Delayed Childbearing
  • Simply pretending there's nothing confounding to interpret is stupid. A Message About ID
  • Britons received four gold medals at the Athens Olympics, confounding cynical expectations that our athletes would trail home with only a miserable brace of bronzes.
  • From 1955 to 1963, he was Chairman of the National Bank, an Irish clearing bank, again confounding those who took his owlish, academic demeanour at face value.
  • When I found myself faced yet again with the same questions that are, confoundingly, personal and impersonal simultaneously I had to bite my cheek sometimes to keep myself from screaming. Falling Apart in One Piece
  • But in the past few months the dollar has been confounding forecasters - and whipsawing short-sellers - by rebounding sharply.
  • Zeus break forth in dancing, beating with buskined foot on heaven's bright floor; for now hath she worked her heart's desire in utterly confounding the chiefest of Hellas 'sons. Heracles
  • The close correlation between the data obtained from these two sources suggests that recall error is unlikely to be a confounding factor.
  • Highly ramified issues of land ownership are confounding attempts either to relocate villages or to rebuild in the same places.
  • More importantly, it was the confounding of all sceptics. Times, Sunday Times
  • Confounding my prejudices, they are not the chinless blue-bloods I expected.
  • And financial markets remain calm, confounding worrywarts who prophesied turmoil once the Federal Reserve began raising interest rates.
  • Most confounding is the under-dramatization of Hades. G. Roger Denson: Julia Stiles and Mimi Goese Take On Godly Sexual Politics at BAM
  • Even more confounding is that, when discounting that exception, Justice Scalia acknowledged that police actions do not occur in a vacuum. Sui Generis--a New York law blog
  • Rather, he revels in confounding his audience and the media, cultivating a persona rife with contradictions.

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