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I confess I want the universe to surprise and confound.

And you're not doing business with Israel?People like you confound me. I can't tell if you're anti-Semitic or just completely brainwashed and blind to the facts on the ground.

The data model would definitely heavily confound your attempts to build a clean system.

> it adds an undeniable “rhythm” to the day, chopping it into chunks The gods confound the man who first found out\n how to distinguish hours!

And many of the relationships between the bands and musicians and songs they're talking about span or confound most notions of "genre.

This might have the upside of preserving gut flora, but it's easy to see how it would confound treatment: some things are very difficult to grow in vitro.

Comparisons between countries also confound the idea that more education translates into more growth.

Nevertheless, strong-niche shows confound our idea of "generally" great shows and make normative comparisons very hard to do, unless we start factoring for things like strength of sentiment.

But in a court of law, a lot can get lost in translation and, in the absence of a clear factual record, skilled lawyers have all sorts of room to confuse and confound the issues as they apply abstract legal rules to a murky factual record.

Therefore, abstracts are analyzed!Another potential confound for longer-term analyses is that the form of abstracts is not constant over the years: abstracts in the 1970s and 2010s aren't written in the same ways, and have different norms for what to include and how to include it. Among other things, the form of abstracts has gotten somewhat more structured/boilerplate, which is one reason I suspect they are finding an increase in all hits for their boilerplate search query.